The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a private group, said in a report last month that some 869 women were murdered in honour killings in 2013.


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If there ever was an inappropriately named action, I think "hono(u)r killing" is it. I think the press should start referring to them as "misogyny murders" or something of the like. Honor killing sounds too sterile for my taste, and it kind of masks the brutality and inhumanity of the act. It sounds almost like hara kiri, or some other traditional form of killing oneself for honor. Words matter.


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