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All Stories for Honour Killings
How an organisation called Evidence is fighting against 'honour killings', by aiding victims in legal cases
Kavitha Muralidharan • 7 years agoEvidence's Founding Executive Director Kathir @ Vincent Raj talks about the complexities of honour killing cases, and the strong hold that caste continues to have on the people of Tamil Nadu | #FirstCulture
Supreme Court to seek suggestions from NGO, khap panchayats to reduce honour killing incidents
• 8 years agoThe Supreme Court Monday sought suggestions from an NGO, an amicus curiae, and Khap Panchayats on ways to prevent harassment and killing of young couples in the name of family honour for inter-caste or intra-clan (gotra) marriages
From triple talaq to honour killing, 'tradition' is an excuse used to suppress women
Gita Aravamudan • 8 years agoFrom triple talaq to honour killings, sati, johar, infanticide — why are traditions that harm women seen as protective mechanisms?
Pakistani man stoned to death in suspected case of honour killing
• 8 years agoA 43-year-old man in Punjab province has been stoned to death, in an apparent case of honour killing, according to a media report on Thursday.
'Islamophobia' Phobia: Politics of offence and the death sentence for debate culture in JNU
Abhiruchi Ranjan Chitra Adkar • 8 years agoJawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), which is known to be a contestatory space, such that even the subdued walls of the SSS canteen soaked in the sticking glue of the parcha-poster culture, seem to be shouting up at the smug building windows, engaged in endless debate.
Rio 2016: Watch the incredible journey of Indian women wrestlers to the Olympics
Fpsports • 9 years agoGet lost tharki awam: Qandeel Baloch killed, but her message to misogynists lives
Sandipan Sharma • 9 years agoIn death, Qandeel Baloch left behind a message that people who watched her by the night and threatened her by day shouldn't forget: Get lost tharki awam
A haunting tale of dangerous inter-caste love: Read Perumal Murugan's 'Pyre'
Fp Staff • 9 years agoTamil writer Perumal Murugan’s Pyre, recently translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, tells a haunting tale of inter-caste love threatened by societal prejudice
Pakistan man shoots teenage niece for listening to 'loud' music
Fp Archives • 10 years agoA Pakistani man shot dead his teenage niece because she was listening to loud music, police said on Tuesday.
Horror of honour killings continue: Girl shot dead by brother in Meerut
Fp Archives • 10 years agoIn a suspected case of honour killing, a girl was allegedly shot dead by her brother in their house under the Jani police station in the district, police said on Tuesday.