Tuesday, May 27, 2003

"Her father stabbed her 12 times in the chest, and made sure that she was beyond recovery before he called the police and the ambulance to come and get her."

"..the United Nations conservatively estimates that 5,000 women a year are killed in this way, and the majority of those women are killed in Jordan and in the West Bank and Gaza Strip areas... and that's a very conservative estimate on the United Nations' part, because the majority of these crimes are later classified as suicides and accidental deaths"

Honor Killings in Jordan