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01/29/04: Juridical Aspect: JB.1: CEDAW
United Nations Report to Human Rights
Commission 2004-Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions Report of the Special Rapporteur, Asma Jahangir
In
the period under review, the Special Rapporteur has continued to
receive reports of so‑called “honour killings” of
women. In this regard, the Special Rapporteur
wishes to recall that she is monitoring incidents of “honour
killings” where the State either approves of and supports these
acts, or extends a form of impunity to the perpetrators by inaction. In
this connection, she transmitted to the Government of Pakistan
a communication relating to the murder of some 200 victims.
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