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Say NO to Honor Killings in Pakistan
- Posted to Humanity Healing International
To: Ms. Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
We call on the United Nations and the signatory nations of the International Bill of Rights to specifically label “Honor Killings”, “Acid Throwing” and other heinous acts of violence against women as Hate Crimes and punishable by the harshest sentences. We demand that the United Nations...
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"Honor Killings" and "Acid Throwing" are more than just terms used to describe when a man in Pakistan decides that his wife, his sister or his daughter has maculated the honor of the family. They are heinous crimes and prolific in Pakistan, where "Honor Killings" and abuse of women and girls are everyday events.
Poor and uneducated women must struggle daily for basic rights, recognition, and respect. They live in a culture that defines them by the male figures in their lives, even though these women are often the breadwinners for their families.
A fundamentalist Patriarchal society sees no need to empower their female citizens, denying them equal civil and social rights; their justice system are failing the victims by letting the perpetrators "off the hook" with inconclusive court-cases with no concrete help, allowing the victims to continue to be harassed and threatened and being the ones to be persecuted.
This flagrant violation of the basic human right to exist and live without fear must be publicly and forcefully confronted by the international community.
Humanity Healing International and its partner in Pakistan, Hope Development Organization, are standing up for the women and girls of Pakistan to wipe out the stain of "honor" killings. We are doing this through an Advocacy Against Honor Killings campaign in Pakistan to help empower women, through the building of the House of Hope Safe House for Women and girls, and through a petition drive to raise awareness.
We need YOUR Voice! Join us by signing this petition in the name of the International community, demanding a better life for these women and children. We are picking International Women's Day to make this statement. Share your Voice with these voiceless women!
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Much Metta,
Christopher Buck
CEO
Humanity Healing International
825-C Merrimon Avenue, Suite 301
Asheville, NC 28804
http: humanityhealing.org
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You- who are without the sin- should throw the first stone- Jesus.
a propo, this is my own comment on my Facebook-
stop it, vinay pandey, advocate/humanright activist, india
The UN and supporting countries should address this issue on political level and force the Pakistani Government to introduce a bill for the protection of women rights in their Constitution. The young boys should be educated in school on how to treat and respect a woman as it is obvious their fathers are very bad examples. It is so disgusting to know that these men (pigs) do not respect women. It is sickening.
Nice
I support your thought.
Well, I think and feel this is aweful. No one has the right to kill a woman. Men think they own the world. Women voice counts too and need to be respected.
Totally agree
Thanks.
NOBODY HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAKE ANOTHER LIFE AND WHAT EVIL TO KILL FOR HONOR, BE HUMAN AND STOP THIS HONOR KILLINGS <3.
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Ther is never honor in killing, so how can one take the right to do. So?
ان العالم الاسلامي وخاصة السعوديه مسؤولة امام الله عن هذا العوز والفقر الذي تعانيه الدول الاسلاميه الفقيره ....