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SELECTED INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
MATERIALS ADDRESSING CRIMES OF HONOUR
Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law,
SOAS - August 2013
Compiled by Libera Chiara D‟Acunto
This 2013 collection of international human rights materials is an update of the collection of the same name of 2003, which was produced by the Project on "Strategies of Response to „Crimes of Honour‟ Against Women" jointly co-ordinated by CIMEL (Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law) and INTERIGHTS (International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights). The original document remains on this website and includes a full introduction to the document: see http://www.soas.ac.uk/honourcrimes/resources/file55416.pdf
This document has been compiled by selecting and extracting relevant human rights materials generated by the United Nations system and the Council of Europe as of 2003.
Please note that due to limited time and human resources, this update contains only materials that directly address „crimes of honour‟ employing this term, and does not at this stage include all treatment of distinct manifestations of violence against women – such as forced marriage - that the Project has included in previous updates of these materials.
The collection, like the original document, is divided in two main parts: international materials and regional materials.
The first one consists of two sections: treaty-based bodies materials and charter-based bodies materials. In the first section a set of concluding observations by the monitoring bodies of international human rights treaties, addressing „crimes of honour‟, are presented, and in the second section the most relevant documents which have been generated by the political bodies of the United Nations system can be found.
The second main part of the collection focuses, like the original document, on the Council of Europe‟s work, by providing the documents in which the regional organisation has addressed „crimes of honour‟.
Please note that footnotes from extracted materials have not been included in this collection. Please refer to the actual document for these.
Links for all documents have been provided. (If you experience any problems in opening the links to the documents of the UN bodies, please go to http://www.un.org/en/documents/index.shtml - "Search by symbol" in the blue box. Documents symbols are also included in this collection).
This document is not intended to be exhaustive. Any suggestion for additions, updates or changes are therefore welcome. Please send any suggestion by email to cimelhcp@soas.ac.uk, citing "IHRM" as the subject title.