Vote For GA resolution Prohibition Of Honor-Based Violence

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General Assembly Vote Recommendation

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Part of the Information for WA Voters program

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Resolution Analysis
Overview
The at-vote General Assembly proposal seeks to ban honour-based violence, which is the use of violence against individuals because they caused real or perceived damage to their family or community's reputation, honour, etc. Honour killings are often, but do not have to be, religious in nature and may, for example, target those who engaged in pre-/extramarital affairs.

Recommendation
This proposal bans a barbaric practice that too often costs people their lives, solely because they do not share the moral or religious framework of the perpetrator. Every act of honour based-violence is one too many, and this proposal adequately deals with the issue by including not just honour killings, but all forms of violence. In addition, the third clause prevents prosecutors from purposefully not prosecuting honour-based violence, or prosecuting such cases with less severity. This proposal thereby fills an important gap in present international law.

For the above reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends a vote For the at-vote resolution, "Prohibition Of Honor-Based Violence".

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