Women

Honour Killing Dept: But legal experts and those who work in women's shelters say that once the words are stripped away, the crime is one that happens often in Canada: women being killed for not doing as they are told, according to Vancouver Sun. "It's a violent assault on women because they're women." For months during the Shafia murder trial in Kingston, Ont., 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.