Du’a Khalil Aswad 17, Iraqi Kurdistan
Rim Abu Ghanem 19, Isreal
Sahjda Bibi 21, Great Britain
Banaz Mahmod 20, Great Britain
Guldunya Toren 22, Turkey
Fadime Sahindal 26, Sweden
Hatin Surucu 23, Germany
Heshu Yunes 16, Great Britain
Huri Ozcelik 28, Turkey
Pela Atroshi 19, Iraqi Kurdistan
Sezen Yuksel 19, France – Strangled by her husband two days after her wedding. She had been forced into marriage and refused sexual relations. (FCRF)
Yousra al-Azzam 19, Palestine
Amandeep Atwal, 17 Canada
Anooshe Sediq Ghulam 22, Norway
Leila Hussein 41, Iraq
Rand Abdel-Qader 17, Iraq
Noor Faleh Almaleki 20, USA
Palestina Isa 16, USA
Sandeela Kanwal 25, USA
Amina Said 19, USA
Sarah Said 18, USA
Ghazala Khan 18, Denmark
Samaira Nazir 25, Great Britain
Aqsa Parvez 16, Canada
Jaswinder Kaur Sidh 25, India
Arash Ghorbani-Zarin 18, Great Britain
Samia Sarwar 29, Pakistan
Misha’al bint Fahd al Saud 19, Saudi Arabia
Khatera Sadiqi 20, Canada
Mujahedeh 16, Afghanistan
Ruksana Naz 19, Great Britain
D. Kannagi 22, India
Naziat Khan, Great Britain – Strangled in front of her three young daughters at home in Streatham, London. Her estranged husband allegedly carried out the honour killing because she wanted a separation. (FCRF)
Rudayena Jemael 37, Israel
Yasmin Akhtar 33, Great Britain
Anita Gindha 22, Great Britain
These are some of the names we know.
On average 5,000 women are killed every year.
DIShonour killings must STOP.
P.Z. Myers, the author of the Pharyngula blog, writes about the horrors of what is continuing to happen in Iraq in a post entitled “
