Honor Killing and the Indigenous Peoples: Cultural Right or Human Right Violation?

摘要

Many sources define honor killing as the premeditated murder of a girl or a woman. The murderer who commits this crime is usually one of the girl's or woman's family members like her brother, father, or a combination of male agnates. The murderer commits this crime to restore the family's social reputation. The killer believes he is preserving the family's honor by using methods like shooting, stoning, burning, burying alive, strangling, smothering, and knifing the victim to death.