AI INDEX: ACT 77/034/2004 5 March 2004

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Media Briefing

AI Index: ACT 77/034/2004 (Public)
News Service No: 050

Embargo Date: 5 March 2004 11:00 GMT


Making Violence against Women Count
Facts and Figures - a Summary
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VIOLENCE WITH IMPUNITY
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In Iran 45 women under the age of 20 have been murdered in so-called "honour" killings by close relatives in Iran's majority ethnic Arab province of Khuzestan in a two-month period in 2003 (Middle East Times, 31 October 2003).
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So called "honour" defences (partial or complete) are found in the penal codes of Peru, Bangladesh, Argentina, Ecuador, Egypt, Guatemala, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, the West Bank and Venezuela (UN 2002)........
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