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Crimes of Honor In Jordan and the Arab World

Publication Date: 
June, 2009

WUNRN

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 3
2. Definition 3
3. Contextual Background 4
4. Legal Background 5
5. General Locale 6
6. Underlying Rationale (seasons) 7
7. Perpetrators 7
8. The Jordanian Case 8
8-1 General 8
8-2 Combating the Social Syndrome 10
8-3 Defenders 11
8-4 Statistics 11
9. Recommendations 13
10. References 14

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Imprisonment to Protect Women against "Crimes of Honor", A Dual Violation of Civil Rights

Publication Date: 
January, 2010

Some Jordanian women commit a crime, serve their sentence and then walk free. Others – some of them guilty only in the eyes of their family and the society – end up in prison and never leave.

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