The Guardian listed this woman as one of the world's 100 most Inspirational Women, Jasvinder Sanghera has been fighting forced marriages and honour based abuse - both in her native Britain and internationally. The charity Karma Nirvana she founded in 1993 has helped establish several refuge centers for South Asian men and women fleeing forced marriages. Her commitment stems from personal experience, after running away from home fourteen years old, faced with the prospect of a forced marriage.

This case study highlight routine forms of honour related violence, both its nature and impact on minority women. It also examines ways of tackling the problem.

This documentary from national Geographic Live, titled “Too Young to Wed: Child Brides” portrays the reality of child marriage. Child marriage is a truly global problem that cuts across countries, cultures, religions and ethnicities. Child brides can be found in every region in the world, from the Middle East to Latin America, South Asia to Europe.

An honour killing is a murder of a person accused of brining shame or dishonour to her family. The concept of dishonour is very vague and can include anything from refusing to enter an arranged marriage or being in a relationship which is disapproved by the family to becoming victim of rape. The statistics of honour killing is very dark as many of the case are not reported as homicide. The honour killings happen all over the world. 

This simulation game is especially recommended to be used in an international group (about 5 to 30 participants) where differences between value systems are more noticeable. Abigail is based on the personal and cultural values of the participants and fits into our idea of relationships – mother and daughter, friends, boyfriend, sexuality. Listening to this story we look at it through our own personal assumptions - the age of the characters, the location, and the circumstances.

The book “At 20 it starts to rot” is based on the interviews with young women who tell their stories about honour violence, forced marriages and cultural crocks. Often there is a perception that honour violence is a phenomenon that is connected only to newly arrived refugees. The interviewed girls come from the families who have been living in Sweden for up to 20 years. Most of the children have grown up, or were born, in Sweden.

This DVD, ‘My Second Name Is Honour’ (produced by Southall Black Sisters and Boldface Productions, UK) generates debates on the definitions and meaning of honour related violence, and its impact on women in minority communities.

UN Women in Sweden has developed a game consisting of 64 cards, describing the 29 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and 16 articles of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women (CEDAW). Each card has the Article from the UDHR/CEDAW on one side and the simple interpretation on the other side.

This case study highlights the extreme end of honour related violence resulting in an honour killing. It also examines ways of preventing such tragedies.

An honour killing is a murder of a person accused of brining shame or dishonour to her family. The concept of dishonour is very vague and can include anything from refusing to enter an arranged marriage or being in a relationship which is disapproved by the family to becoming victim of rape. The statistics of honour killing is very dark as many of the case are not reported as homicide. The honour killings happen all over the world.