Immigration Education: Honour Killings

Frontier Centre Dept: The slaying of women in retribution for behaviour believed to slight the family is still shamefully prevalent in parts of the Middle East and South Asia. It also crops up occasionally in Canada, where at least a dozen cases over the past eight years are considered honour killings. Names of women such as Amandeep Singh and Aqsa Parvez, victims of atavistic violence in a progressive society, are etched in the public consciousness, according to Calgary Herald. Education is the key, as a new study from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy by Toronto social worker Aruna Papp, makes clear and an honour killing is still a killing. Amending the Criminal Code to create a separate category for such crimes, as Minister for the Status of Women Rona Ambrose suggested last week, is unnecessary. And while the Justice Department has disavowed the idea of separating honour killings from other murder categories, the minor kerfuffle this spawned could spur some innovative tactics to prevent this type of crime. However, singling out the perpetrators and their victims by making honour killings a separate charge in the Criminal Code is not the way to fight this scourge. Canadian law already provides ample punishment for murder. Creating fresh provisions for crimes that are committed by people from a relatively narrow range of ethnic backgrounds also undermines the notion that the law applies to everyone regardless of colour, creed or culture. As reported in the news.
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