Honour: crimes, paradigms, and violence against women

Preface : violence against women and 'crimes of honour' / Radhika Coomaraswamy

Introduction : 'honour', rights and wrongs / Lynn Welchman and Sara Hossain

1. United Nations approaches to 'crimes of honour' / Jane Connors

2. 'Crimes of honour', value and meaning / Purna Sen

3. The role of 'community discourse' in combating 'crimes of honour' : preliminary assessment and prospects / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

4. 'Honour killings' and the law in Pakistan / Sohail Akbar Warraich

5. Murders of women in Lebanon : 'crimes of honour' between reality and the law / Danielle Hoyek, Rafif Rida Sidawi and Amira Abou Mrad

6. 'Crimes of honour' as violence against women in Egypt / Centre for Egyptian Women's Legal Assistance

7. Researching women's victimisation in Palestine : a socio-legal analysis / Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

8. Culture, national minority and the state : working against the 'crime of family honour' within the Palestinian community in Israel / Aida Touma-Sliman

9. Changing the rules? : developments on 'crimes of honour' in Jordan / Reem Abu Hassan and Lynn Welchman

10. Honour-based violence among the Kurds : the case of Iraqi Kurdistan / Nazand Begikhani

11. 'Crimes of honour' in the Italian penal code : an analysis of history and reform / Maria Gabriella Bettiga-Boukerbout

12. The 'legitimate defence of honour', or murder with impunity? : a critical study of legislation and case law in Latin America / Silvia Pimentel, Valeria Pandjiarjian and Juliana Belloque

13. 'There is no "honour" in domestic violence, only shame!' : women's struggles against 'honour' crimes in the UK / Hannana Siddiqui

14. Of consent and contradiction : forced marriages in Bangladesh / Dina M. Siddiqi

15. From fathers to husbands : of love, death and marriage in North India / Uma Chakravarti