Kurdish Women Action Against Honour Killing (KWAHK) is a network of Kurdish and non-Kurdish
activists, lawyers and academic researchers.
It was established in March 2000 in London. Its formation coincided with the first international
Women’s Day in the third millennium. It started with an important gathering of the Kurdish community
in London; more than 500 women and men came together to celebrate the launch of this organization,
with its slogan
“No Honour in Murder”.
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The fight to stop violence against women
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03/07/2006 Green Left Weekly
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REVIEW BY FRANCIE CAMPBELL
’Honour’ is an informative collection of 16 essays on the theme of “honour killings” of women. This anthology of essays has a predominantly legal focus, looking at “hono More..
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Turkey province reports 50 honour killings
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28/06/2006 Arab Online
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Killings in the name of honour claimed 50 lives in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakir in the past six years, the Diyarbakir Bar Association’s Women’s Rights Centre said on Tuesday.
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Was Banaz ’killed for honour’?
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11/02/2006 KurdishMedia.com
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Police are searching for the body of a Mitcham woman who they believe may have been the victim of an honour killing.
Banaz Mahmod Babakir Agha, 20, was last seen at 5.50pm on January 23, in Cricket More..
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Kurdish man charged in Sweden with honour killing
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19/01/2006 KurdishMedia.com
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A 59 year old man has appeared at Norrköping district court accused of the 'honour killing' of a 13 year old girl in Iraq in 2001.
The man has been the subject of an international arrest warrant s More..
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Turks sentence 2 in ’honor killing’
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01/11/2005 Associated Press - By SUZAN FRASER
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ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish court on Friday convicted two brothers for the "honor killing" of their sister and sentenced one to life in prison and the other to more than 11 years behind bars.
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Turks to fight ’honor killings’ of women
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17/05/2005 The New York Times - By Sebnem Arsu
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ISTANBUL, May 15 - In a nondescript building in a remote part of Istanbul, a young woman sat in front of a television on a recent day watching a chilling scene unfold. Panning across the dank walls of More..
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Halabja and Anfal - A case for genocide
Organised by the Joint Committee for the Remembrance of Anf 
Tugba Tunc, who is a Swedish citizen, was shot in the Doga Park in Turkey in a suspected honour killing attempt.
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