INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION
International Women's Day in New York - The conference held in New York in March 2010 is a great model of conferences that should be held worldwide. Navi Pillay, High Commissioner for Humans Rights, stated, "The reality for most victims, including victims of honour killings, is that State institutions fail them and that most perpetrators of domestic violence can rely on a culture of impunity for the acts they commit – acts which would often be considered as crimes, and be punished as such, if they were committed against strangers."
To learn more about this intervention, please click on the article linked below:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33971
EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERVENTION:
We rated this intervention with five stars because they launched a center to end violence against girls and women in the future. The center is in place to support practitioners around the world in effective design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of policies and programs. By using the Program Planning and Evaluation Model, they have a concrete foundation for the future and has sustainability. This center is a web-ased site that brings together lessons learned to date and recommended practices originating from the women's movement, civil society organizations, and governments.
To learn more about this intervention, please click on the article linked below:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33971
EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERVENTION:
We rated this intervention with five stars because they launched a center to end violence against girls and women in the future. The center is in place to support practitioners around the world in effective design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of policies and programs. By using the Program Planning and Evaluation Model, they have a concrete foundation for the future and has sustainability. This center is a web-ased site that brings together lessons learned to date and recommended practices originating from the women's movement, civil society organizations, and governments.
NATIONAL INTERVENTION
In June of 2009, the Committee On Equal Opportunites for Men and Women approached the Council of Europe addressing how to combat "honour crimes" in Europe, particularly Sweden, France, the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Turkey. In their draft recommendation, the Assembly asks Parliamentary to do, essentially, five things:
1. Asks the Committee of Ministers to ensure that it is applied by member states.
2. Devise a strategy to stop "honour crimes."
3. Instruct the Ad Hoc Committee on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.
4. Making gender equality a human right according to the Europian Convention of Human Rights.
5. Lastly, to seek more in finances and budget.
Click to read more below:
http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/Doc/XrefViewHTML.asp?FileID=12696&Language=EN
EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERVENTION:
There is no follow up correlating with this draft recommendation, however, the information and proposal is well-written and has extraordinary means for success. We would rate this five stars because it addresses, in specifics, the problems and solutions for the harsh issues of honor killings. With its descriptive list, it will be educating the culture about the culture without just providing aid. This means that not only is it an aid-based intervention, but a capacity-based intervention as well, which will be highly sustainable for the future.
1. Asks the Committee of Ministers to ensure that it is applied by member states.
2. Devise a strategy to stop "honour crimes."
3. Instruct the Ad Hoc Committee on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.
4. Making gender equality a human right according to the Europian Convention of Human Rights.
5. Lastly, to seek more in finances and budget.
Click to read more below:
http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/Doc/XrefViewHTML.asp?FileID=12696&Language=EN
EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERVENTION:
There is no follow up correlating with this draft recommendation, however, the information and proposal is well-written and has extraordinary means for success. We would rate this five stars because it addresses, in specifics, the problems and solutions for the harsh issues of honor killings. With its descriptive list, it will be educating the culture about the culture without just providing aid. This means that not only is it an aid-based intervention, but a capacity-based intervention as well, which will be highly sustainable for the future.
COMMUNITY INTERVENTION
The GOOD news about Pakistan and honor killings is that there's a small intervention already in place! In April of 2010, there was a seminar on "Prevention of Honour Killings (karo-kari)" in Karachi. Police, they say, are making great effort to combat this problem and are doing a very good job prosecuting those who are caught with committing the crime. A project sponsored by the Gender Justice Unit by the Department for International Development set up what are known as "anti-karo-kari cells" in four areas in Pakistan. These cells have a helpline and launch workshops.
Click to read more below:
http://archives.dawn.com/archives/49933
Click to read more below:
http://archives.dawn.com/archives/49933
Capacity Building/Aid-Based
The interventions needed to help the victims of honor killing are both aid-based and capacity building in nature. By capacity building, we mean creating an intervention that has sustainable results whereas an aid-based intervention is a temporary solution.
An immediate response is needed to help these victims. Shelters, safe houses, and support services need to become available for protection with staff trained in facts about honor killings. But there must be a change in legislation and law enforcement in order to be lasting. Laws must be put in place to provide victims of violence, particularly women, justice. Perpetrators, accomplices, and enablers need to be prosecuted with severe consequences.
Click to read more:
http://www.meforum.org/2646/worldwide-trends-in-honor-killings
1999 Amnesty International Report
An immediate response is needed to help these victims. Shelters, safe houses, and support services need to become available for protection with staff trained in facts about honor killings. But there must be a change in legislation and law enforcement in order to be lasting. Laws must be put in place to provide victims of violence, particularly women, justice. Perpetrators, accomplices, and enablers need to be prosecuted with severe consequences.
Click to read more:
http://www.meforum.org/2646/worldwide-trends-in-honor-killings
1999 Amnesty International Report
Souad has created a positive vibe by writing a book to educate others about the horrific events of honor killing and what it has done to her. We recommend this story for the public not only as a tool of knowledge, but to acquire an understanding and compassion that will develop after reading her chilling story.
Burned Alive: A Survivor of an "Honor Killing" Speaks Out
Souad
68 Reviews
Grand Central Publishing, May 13, 2005 - Biography & Autobiography - 240
pages
When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her West Bank village, as in so many others, sex before marriage is considered a grave dishonor to one's family and is punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of meting out her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the family's clothes, he poured gasoline over her and set her on fire. Miraculously, she survived, rescued by women of her village, who put out the flames and took her to a local hospital. Horribly burned over seventy percent of her body and still denounced by her family, Souad was able to receive the care she needed only after the intervention of a European aid worker. Now in permanent exile from her homeland, she has decided to tell her story and reveal the barbarity of a practice that continues to this day. Burned Alive ...is the first true account ever published by a victim of an "honor crime." Souad's inspiring testimony is a shocking, moving, and harrowing story of cruelty and incomparable courage...and an inspiring call to action to end a heinous tradition.
Burned Alive: A Survivor of an "Honor Killing" Speaks Out
Souad
68 Reviews
Grand Central Publishing, May 13, 2005 - Biography & Autobiography - 240
pages
When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her West Bank village, as in so many others, sex before marriage is considered a grave dishonor to one's family and is punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of meting out her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the family's clothes, he poured gasoline over her and set her on fire. Miraculously, she survived, rescued by women of her village, who put out the flames and took her to a local hospital. Horribly burned over seventy percent of her body and still denounced by her family, Souad was able to receive the care she needed only after the intervention of a European aid worker. Now in permanent exile from her homeland, she has decided to tell her story and reveal the barbarity of a practice that continues to this day. Burned Alive ...is the first true account ever published by a victim of an "honor crime." Souad's inspiring testimony is a shocking, moving, and harrowing story of cruelty and incomparable courage...and an inspiring call to action to end a heinous tradition.
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