Maps in the News: Honor Killings
News of a reported “honor killing”
of a woman by her family in Pakistan is shocking. This map (click to enlarge) from the State of Women in the World atlas by Joni Seager identifies
countries where honor killings regularly occur.
“’Honor killing’ is a term
used to identify a form of legally or socially sanctioned revenged exercised
within a family against a woman who is deemed to have soiled the family’s
honor, usually through behavior that is judged to be sexually inappropriate.” Between 2002 and 2006 in Pakistan, more than
4,100 honor killings occurred. According
to the map, three women per day in Pakistan are murdered in honor killings.
The State of the Women in the World atlas is available in the Ball
State University Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection and the Atlas
Collection on the second floor of Bracken Library.
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