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Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 1999
His Majesty King Abdullah’s advisor on Islamic affairs called for amendments to the penal code which they believe encourages men to kill female relatives for involvement - real or suspected - in illicit relationships.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 7, 1999
The only people that I could ever imagine would have a vested interest in resisting the recent campaign to abolish reduced sentences for honor crimes in Jordan are, of course, the perpetrators who have already benefited from the reduced sentences and, naturally, their families. I never could...
Date of source: Sunday, September 5, 1999
A 19-year-old woman was reportedly killed by her brother on Saturday in North Marka for what the alleged killer stated was for reasons of "honor," officials said. The victim, Maysoon Mohammad, was reportedly shot by her brother Bassam, 30, at least 15 times from a machine gun on the stairs of...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
The number of divorces in Egypt is on the rise according to a Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) study reported in the Egyptian opposition daily Al Wafd. While there were 67,000 divorce cases filed in 1990, by 1997 that number had jumped to 71,000. Last year the number...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 24, 1999
... In the name of our sisters, daughters and mothers who do not have any voice, in the name of those who this minute unjustly suffer different forms of violence and injury to protect honor, with no one to protect them and guarantee their human rights, we raise our own voices. We call for the...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 24, 1999
Jordanian intellectuals and human rights activists on Monday launched a nationwide campaign to collect thousands of signatures to stem crimes of honor in Jordan. The group of men and women, who form the National Jordanian Campaign Committee to Eliminate so-called Crimes of Honor, appealed to the...
Date of source: Saturday, August 21, 1999
A group of male and female activists plan to launch a nationwide campaign next week to stem crimes of honor, a black mark on the country’s human rights record. Annually, around 25 women are reportedly killed in the Kingdom in so-called "crimes of honor" - a term used to describe the murder of a...
Date of source: Sunday, August 8, 1999
The Jordanian Penal Code is a license to kill for reasons of values and breaking rules of chastity. Under what absurd right do we allow men to be the moral arbiters and executioners of female relatives bestowing on them legal protection under the guise of extenuating circumstances?
Date of source: Tuesday, August 3, 1999
The Jordanian government intends to amend articles providing for honor crimes in the Jordanian Penal Code, most importantly Section 1 of Article 340. The author discusses the reasons for the inclusion of this section originally and concludes by saying, "Jordanians have an Arab conservative culture...
Date of source: Saturday, July 31, 1999
The Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced a 19-year-old man to a 12-month prison-term after finding him guilty of killing his pregnant sister by running her over with his pickup in the Jordan Valley for "reasons of honor" in February of this year. The article mentions similar ruling in which murders...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.