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The Violence Is Not Our Culture Campaign is an initiative of Women Living Under Muslim Laws to eliminate all forms of 'culturally-justified' violence 
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There is No Honour in Killing - VNC Statement on the Shafia Murders in Canada

February 2, 2012
VNC Campaign

Last week, a Canadian court found a Montreal couple and their son guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of four female family members; Zeinab, Sahar and Geeta Shafia, as well as Rona Mohammad Amir. Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya and their son Hamed, were each handed an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.

Should we call it ‘honour killing’? No!

January 30, 2012
Montreal Gazette

It’s a false distancing of ourselves from a too-common crime: the murder of females.

'Honour'-based violence runs deep and wide

February 2, 2012
The Guardian

The issue must be seen in the context of violence against women and the inequality found throughout society.

Honour killings in Canada: even worse than we believe

January 31, 2012
Globe and Mail

Do we focus on so-called honour killings precisely because the victims are Muslims, or South Asians, or Middle Easterners?

Canada: Imams Show Leadership in Speaking out against Violence Against Women

December 18, 2011
Globe and Mail

A group of Canadian imams is right to use a high-profile trial as a timely opportunity to condemn violence and abuse committed in the name of family honour.

While there is no honour in killing, honour-based violence does exist. It is a manifestation not of religion, but of culture, and is more prevalent in countries with patriarchal traditions where adultery is punishable by law such as Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Canada is not immune from such influences.

Violence against aboriginal women could lead to UN inquiry

December 13, 2011
Montreal Gazette

The United Nations is set to conduct an inquiry into Canada's cases of missing and murdered aboriginal women, two Canadian groups lobbying for the action announced on Tuesday. Pictured, protesters chant outside the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry in Vancouver, British Columbia October 11, 2011.

Canada: BC Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Polygamy

November 23, 2011
News 1130

A BC judge has upheld Canada's ban on polygamy, calling it constitutional and infringing on religious freedom only a little.

Canada: New insights on 'honour killings' in report by Ontario police

September 15, 2011
The Globe and Mail

The phrase “honour killing” is a misnomer that should be shunned because it emphasizes a twisted rationale for murder rather than the murder itself, and even in Canada the notion has spawned instances of judicial leniency toward the killer, a landmark report on domestic violence among South Asian immigrants concludes.

In the Name of the Family

January, 2010
Shelley Saywell (WMM)

Schoolgirl Aqsa Parvez, sisters Amina and Sarah Said, and college student Fauzia Muhammad were all North American teenagers—and victims of premeditated, murderous attacks by male family members. Only Muhammad survived. Emmy® winner Shelley Saywell examines each case in depth in this riveting investigation of "honor killings" of girls in Muslim immigrant families. Not sanctioned by Islam, the brutalization and violence against young women for defying male authority derives from ancient tribal notions of honor and family shame. 

Canada/USA: Investigation of Cross-Border Underage Polygamous Marriages

August 9, 2011
Canadian Press

VANCOUVER — The RCMP is preparing to head to Texas to look for more than two dozen brides from Bountiful, B.C., who were allegedly sent across the border as teens to marry older men, including a polygamous leader now facing a life sentence for sexually assaulting two teenage girls.

The Mounties launched a new criminal investigation into Bountiful earlier this year after a constitutional case examining Canada's anti-polygamy law heard allegations of cross-border marriages in the 1990s and early 2000s.

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