Rona Ambrose: Honour Killings

Frontier Centre Dept: There have been 12 honour killings in Canada since 2002, said Ms. Papp, who defines them as “murders carried out in order to cleanse the family name and restore the family honour.”, according to Globe And Mail. Rona Ambrose, Minister for the Status of Women, spoke at the event Monday, condemning honour killings and calling on women’s groups and local communities to work together with the government to combat the “heinous abuses of power.” Immigrant communities, particularly South Asians, must “air our dirty laundry” in order to combat violence against women, says Ms. Papp, who specializes in domestic violence. She released a report for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy a privately funded conservative think tank entitled “Culturally Driven Violence against Women” at a news conference Monday, just down the road from the Mississauga grocery store where Ms. Dhillon was killed in 2009. Though most South Asian men are not abusers, she said that aspects of the cultures, such as glorifying “self-sacrifice in girls and women,” contribute to violence. Despite this, she said, most “shy away from challenging immigrant communities” for fear of being viewed as racist or stereotyping. As reported in the news.
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