Women

Honour Killing Dept: But legal experts and those who work in women's shelters say once the words are stripped away, the crime is one that happens far too often in Quebec and the rest of Canada: women being killed for not doing or behaving as they are told, according to Montreal Gazette. "It's a violent assault on women because they're women." For months during the Shafia murder trial in Kingston, the term honour killing was bandied about as if it were some exotic ritual that only happened in other countries with cultures far removed and backward from our own. "I think we're fascinated right now with the concept of honour killings because that was the name given to it by the prosecution and the accused but that doesn't change what the underlying activity is," said Pearl Eliadis, a Montreal human rights lawyer. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.