Geographic
News,
Complicity by other women in the
family and the community strengthens the concept of
women as property and the perception that violence against
family members is a family and not a judicial issue.
“Females in the family—mothers,
mothers-in-law, sisters, and cousins—frequently
support the attacks. It's a community mentality,"
said Zaynab Nawaz, a program assistant for women's human
rights at Amnesty International.
Fighting the problem of violence
against women includes many facets. Awareness is the
first and probably most vital step. Mick Davie certainly
feels that awareness is his most important job. In an
interview for National Geographic News, he said, “If
my viewers have a higher level of awareness about honor
killings in Pakistan or poverty in South Africa, I think
I have done my job. My goal in taking an advocacy role,
beyond raising people's awareness by telling the stories,
is to activate and motivate people to do something.”
The second step involves changes of a more material
nature. Shehnaz Bukhari believes that legislation is
key, and she is working to campaign for protective legislation.
A bill sent to the Senate calling for the practice of
honor killing to be condemned as murder was rejected
by Nawaz Sharif’s government in 1999, but Pervaiz
Musharraf’s
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