This publication is a compilation that brings together some of the interventions that AIDWA has made over the past decade on the issue of crimes and killings in the name of “honour”. It includes articles, reports of conventions and struggles launched by AIDWA, some case studies, with accompanying documents, especially memoranda submitted to various authorities, and a few of the more important legal pronouncements and landmark judgements over this period. One of the significant features related to struggles for women’s and democratic rights is the long struggle that needs to be waged to make denial, discrimination and exclusion visible. A perusal of newspaper reports from the local news pages from Haryana highlights the urgent need to record ‘honour’ crimes as a separate category under crime data for the country.
Some of the cases mentioned here pinpoint the need to take note of the long struggle that has been waged by AIDWA activists on the ground to make ‘honour’ crimes visible. This struggle has proceeded simultaneously with the efforts to bring justice to the victims and pursue the proceedings at every stage in order to ensure that those individuals and social forces responsible for these blatant violations of law are brought to book.The book is an attempt to document this long struggle even as we move to confront fresh challenges posed by the socio-political factors and forces bolstering such crimes.
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