This document outlines a research project on human rights violations against women in India related to honor killing. The research question asks how the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is being violated through honor killing in India, and what international courts are doing in response. The project plan includes researching definitions of key terms like UDHR and violence against women, collecting statistics on violence against women in India, exploring the reasons behind and incidents of honor killing, and examining actions taken by the Supreme Court and international courts. The document provides an index of topics to be covered and notes the use of internet research and interviews as data collection methods.

1. WOMEN AND HUMAN
RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
REPORT BY: REPORTER OF
THE UN ASHUTOSH GOEL
How are the UDHR’S being
violated against Women in
India, mainly because of Honour
Killing, and what is the UN and
International court doing about
it?
Research Question
I think that my research
question will help answer why is
honor killing happening mainly
in India, what are the reasons,
where is it happening the most.
My research question will also
make people aware of honor
killing and its, ill effects, and
what how are the people or the

2. Index1. Cover Page: Introduction: Research Question and Hypothesis.
2. Index
3. Planning my investigating: Scope of Research and Research method.
4. Data Collection
5. What is an UDHR and what is its role?
6. Fact about violence against women.
7. What is Violence against Women?
8. Significance of violence against women
9. Various forms of violence against women
10. Statistics of violence against women in India
11. Honour Killing: What is it?
12. Reasons behind honor killing
13. Honor Killing in India
14. Real Incidents of honor killing in
India
15. What is the supreme court or the
international court doing about honor
killing?
16. Works Cited: Mla Way

3. PLANNING MY INVESTIGATING: SCOPE OF RESEARCH AND RESEARCH
METHOD.
1. The research of method that I will be using the most is the internet. The internet has
various kinds of information which is the best way or method where I can research for
my topic. First of all, I am going to view many different sites to find out about the
UDHR’s and what does it mean. This will be the very first step to know what is meant
by UDHR, and what is its role.
2. The second step will knowing about violations against women in India through the
Internet from various sites, because it is an important step in my research as i will get
to know what are the various types of violations happening against women in India.
3. The third step of my investigation will be finding information about Honor killing in
India through the internet. I will research many different websites on Honor killing, like
Wikipedia, and WordPress, and then I will compare data from there, analyse the data,
and then I will further execute my plan.
4. I will then compare statistics, like the graphs, from previous years, and the graphs
from recent, years. I will get these graphs from google images and even from
WordPress from the internet.
5. My most crucial step will be finding about information about What is the supreme court
or the international court doing about honor killing? The information for this, I can find

4. DATA COLLECTION
• The resources that I will be mainly using is the internet, where a will
research about violations against women.
• On the internet there are many sites you can go through and can have
more knowledge, making it the best way to find information.
• I am also going to take statistics from the internet in form of graphs
and charts. ( Primary Resource)
• I will take newspaper articles about honor killing, which is my
secondary resource.
• I also took facts and images from the internet which is one of the main
resources I need for my project. ( Primary Resource)
• In the end of the project I will be interviewing people by asking them
questions, from a questionnaire. ( Secondary Recourse)

5. WHATIS UDHRANDWHAT ISITSROLE?
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a
declaration adopted by the United Nations General
Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de
Chaillot, Paris.
• The UDHR draws life-preserving messages from the
past, and is seen as an essential foundation for
building a world in which all human beings can, in the
centuries to come, look forward to living in dignity
and peace.
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the

7. WHAT IS VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ?
• Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to
result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women,
including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of
liberty , whether occurring in private or public life.
=> As defined by the United Nations.
• Around the world at least one woman in every three has been
beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime. Every
year, violence in the home and the community devastates the lives
of millions of women. Violence against women is rooted in a global
culture of discrimination which denies women equal rights with
men and which legitimizes the appropriation of women's bodies for
individual gratification or political ends.

8. SIGNIFICANCE OF VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN
•Unequal status of women in society.
•Serious violations of human rights.
•Leads to range of health problems ( often in
silence)
•Pressure on medical care resources.
•Health care institutions can make significant
contributions to addressing violence against
women by supporting clinicians and clients.

9. VARIOUS FORMS OF VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN
•Rape/Sexual violence in refugee camps.
•forced sexual initiation or abuse.
•Sex-selective abortion.
•Acid throwing/honour killing ( dowry related
deaths)
•Undue virginity examination.
•forced caesarean section deliveries.
•Trafficking in women and girls

10. STATISTICS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
IN INDIA

11. HONOUR KILLING: WHAT IS IT?
• An honour killing or shame killing is the homicide of a member
of a family by other members, due to the perpetrators' belief
that the victim has brought shame or dishonour upon the
family, or has violated the principles of a community or a
religion, usually for reasons such as refusing to enter
an arranged marriage, being in a relationship that is
disapproved by their family, having sex outside marriage,
becoming the victim of rape, dressing in ways which are
deemed inappropriate, engaging in non-heterosexual relations
or renouncing a faith.

14. REAL INCIDENTS OF HONOR KILLING IN
INDIA

15. WHAT IS THE SUPREME COURT OR THE INTERNATIONAL
COURT DOING ABOUT HONOR KILLING?
• NEW DELHI: Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh have joined
18 other states to empower the Centre to bring a
legislation against honor killings, in what could be a
turnaround moment for the effort to curb the powers of
caste, religion and creed.
• The Supreme Court suggested its amicus curiae(allotted
lawyer on behalf of government) to devise a strict legal
regime to contain honour killings, wherein the focus
should be on enforcing orders against khap panchayats
rather than on securing the arrest of its members that
often leads to law and order problems.
• "In our opinion honour killings, for whatever reason,
come within the category of rarest of rare cases deserving
death punishment. It is time to stamp out these barbaric,

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