GNED 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Boko Haram, Honor Killing, Umbilical Cord
25 Aug 2016
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Zero tolerance from barbaric cultural practices act. Parts of the act are generally seen as unhelpful. Provocation defence - in relation to stopping honour killings. Just a piece of paper - if people want to kill their relatives, it probably won"t stop them * Cba has a critical view of the bill. Doesn"t think it will be impactful to stop honour killings. I don"t agree with polygamy, but i don"t think it"s barbaric. Legislation misleads the public that honour killing" is valid under canadian law. Honour killing has never been used successfully as a defence in canada. Killed by the male people in the family. Belonged to a restrictive, patriarchal community (even mom didn"t see anything wrong with what had happened) Obedience is huge (one of the restrictions on women) Was killed because her family couldn"t control her. Occurred when aqsa chose a more western way of living. Caused conflict because this severely contrasted her parent"s worldview.
