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Honor – UN General Assembly Resolution 2004.pdf
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Every year, hundreds of Turkish women are killed in so-called
honour killings, because they are deemed to have brought shame on their
families.
Sometimes the person who kills her is the woman’s own young
son.
The European Union has urged Turkey to crack down on the
practice, but the new Turkish penal code fails to criminalise honour
killings.
Meriel Beattie reports from Turkey.
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