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Beyond IPV. ‘ Honour ’-based violence: perpetration patterns. Joanne Payton. IKWRO, HBVAnet & Cardiff University. ‘Honour’. Graveyard receiving unidentified women: Rania, Iraq. Nine relatives convicted for the murder of Ghazala Khan. PERPS: Relatives of victim; often collective.
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Beyond IPV ‘Honour’-based violence: perpetration patterns Joanne Payton. IKWRO, HBVAnet & Cardiff University
‘Honour’ Graveyard receiving unidentified women: Rania, Iraq
Nine relatives convicted for the murder of Ghazala Khan PERPS: Relatives of victim; often collective Perpetration and victimisation VICTIMS: Often teenagers and young women Three relatives convicted for the Shafia sisters’ murders
Community pressures You can either destroy your honour or your sister. If you don’t choose the latter you can’t walk amongst those around you as a man.” “ ‘Honour Killings’: Stories of men who killed, AyseOnal, 2008, al-Saqi Books, London
Attributions of cultureHBV presented as cultural and often associated with Muslims Right wing capitalisation upon HBV: website link is ‘how to leave Islam’ Describing a domestic murder as HBV without any evidence of HBV’s distinctive structure.
In most countries, only a minority of Muslims approve of HBV…. Pew report data (2013): Proportion of Muslim respondents who said the ‘honour’ killing of a woman was ‘often’ or ‘sometimes’ necessary Pew Research Center. 2013. The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society. Washington DC: The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. P 190.
…and crimes fitting this description are found across several different cultures, faiths and regions.
BanazMahmod Case study
Service impacts • Quick identification – due to lethality and fewer points of intervention; • Immediate intervention; • Liaison and referral with specialist NGOs, community safety, child protection, forced marriage unit as appropriate; • Extreme caution around confidentiality • Capacity gauging and development of protection plans, up to and including change of identity and dispersal to safe areas; • Emotional aftercare.
Summary • Honour crimes are committed by the victim’s own family, often acting in collaboration, in order to restore their reputation in the community. • They have distinctive perpetration patterns and victim profiles. • They are very high risk and escalate very quickly. • Family solidarities make them very complex to address.
Joanne Payton Information and Research Officer Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation Joannepayton.me.uk paytonjl@cf.ac.uk 07892 679472