SIGNATURE WORK
CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION 2024

Honor killings are punishments brought upon individuals who violate social or religious norms in which an individual is killed by a family member or a member of their community to save face or erase the shame that that individual has brought to the community or family (Singh & Dailey, 2016). Because the act of honor killings is permissible in some understandings and interpretations of Sharia law, some predominantly Muslim countries, particularly in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia have allowed men and women to get away with the act of committing honor killings.

Throughout this project, I examined approximately 65 cases of honor killings to understand the nature of these crimes, what they have in common, and how I can publicize cases that have very little media attention or have been forgotten about. Most people do not know what honor killings are, and the purpose of this project is to raise awareness to this issue, evaluating the laws that allow for these killers to not face the necessary repercussions for their actions, and understanding the magnitude of these crimes. The primary methodology for this project is a comprehensive literature review, quantitative and qualitative newspaper analysis, qualitative documentary analysis, data analysis, and the conducting of two interviews which will be published on the website for this project, through which I produced a podcast.