In response to the question concerning the definition of custom killings and honour killings in the new Penal Code, the term custom killings implied, first and foremost, honour killings, while honour killings were always linked to a custom.

Honor killings of Iraqi women are justified by alleged promiscuity or adultery.

Don t we criticize reduced sentences in so called honor crimes all the time? Is that against the law?

In 2004, a Bill had been put forward to ensure that all perpetrators of honour killings were tried.

This encourages debate on sensitive issues like honour crimes.

Lastly, she would appreciate further clarification concerning the status of honour killings as an offence under Turkish law in her view, they should not be diluted in the more general term of custom killings.

Mr. Flinterman sought clarification on the new Penal Code regarding the issue of custom or honour crimes.

Ms. Tan requested further information on the issue of honour killings and virginity testing under the new Penal Code.

She directed my attention to Jordanian made films about the subordination of women inside the home, and to Rana Husseini s powerful book on honor killings, Murder in the Name of Honor .

Nadia Shalhoub Kevorkian, a prominent researcher on honour crimes in Palestinian society, draws attention to the societal dimensions of honour crimes, whereby the family acts under pressures from society in fear of being socially ousted.

In Iraq. Right now, writes Greg Palast, who links to a podcast, which also features Sureya Sayadi, who speaks out against honour killings in Iraq.

Despite Turkey's assurances to the contrary, he was concerned that the new Penal Code used the term custom killings instead of honour killings, as he had been informed that the latter was more inclusive.

Given the importance that it ascribed to combating honour crimes and human trafficking, the European Union welcomed the fact that General Assembly resolution 57 179 had had quite an impact.

Honour crimes were dealt with under the Penal Code and the Government would be eliminating all forms of discrimination against women in that area.

Such expansion should mainly benefit women who are at real risk (such as the victims of honour crimes or trafficking) and their children.

As she had indicated earlier, the Turkish Penal Code did not differentiate between the penalties for honour and custom killings.

Finally there is Rana Husseini herself a role model for investigative reporters everywhere who began documenting and investigating honor killings in her newspaper, The Jordan Times .

The reporting State should consider categorizing honour killings as aggravated homicide to ensure that perpetrators received the maximum punishment.

Ms. Cinar (Turkey) said that, as part of the legal reform exercise, leniency provisions for custom or honour killings, which were essentially synonymous, had been abolished.

Honor killings claim an estimated 5,000 women every year, and are increasingly common in immigrant communities abroad.

Marital rape and sexual harassment in the workplace were defined as crimes for the first time, and severe life sentences were provided for perpetrators of honour crimes.

(b) To continue to intensify efforts to prevent and eliminate crimes against women committed in the name of honour, which take many different forms, by using legislative, administrative and programmatic measures

Ms. Tavares da Silva said the Committee wanted to know if the new Penal Code dealt with the issue of honour killings in accordance with its standard international definition, namely as a crime constituting a gross violation of the right to life and, therefore, without any possible justification on the basis of customs and traditions.

(b) To continue to intensify efforts to prevent and eliminate crimes against women and girls committed in the name of honour, which take many different forms, by using legislative, administrative and programmatic measures

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Everything else is left to patriarchal discretion. Here, no one will intervene except to reinforce the application of the patriarch's rights say, in stoning a supposedly wayward girl, or turning a blind eye to so called honor killings of women.

The reporting State had asserted in its presentation that, notwithstanding the new Penal Code's strict punishment for honour killings, the persistence of values and customs was making it impossible to eliminate this practice in the short term.

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Ms. Akşit (Turkey) said that her country's efforts to suppress honour and custom killings were reflected in the abolition of leniency and the severe penalty life imprisonment prescribed by the Penal Code.

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