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... Honour Killing An honour killing is known to be a cultural practice, historically evolved. It is generally the murder of a family by one or more fellow family members, when they (and potentially the wider community) believe the victim to have brought dishonour upon the family or community. The United Nations Population Fund estimates that the annual worldwide total of honour-killing victims may be as high as 5,000. There are many that are against this whilst there's some that are for it. Most the time the common excuse and common factors that lead to honour killing is property savings or suspicion if 'intimate' relations between a woman and a male. This could include adultery, sex out of marriage, getting her own choice of marriage partner, husbands' will for second marriage, refusing to enter into an arranged marriage, being the victim of a sexual assault, seeking a divorce - even from an
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