Over the past two months, more than 100 people from Sofia and several smaller cities in the country have held public consultations on "Honor related crimes".
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Good practices from Norway
Honor related crimes are far from being only a problem of our society. They are fact not only in countries in Asia and Middle East but in different parts of Europe.
The story of thousands of Romeo and Juliet that comes to life every day
Zakia and Ali live in neighboring houses in a small town in Afghanistan. Both of them do not have real access to romantic love to form an idea of it on a Western model. In their country, young people are forbidden to watch romantic movies or TV series, listen to such plays on the radio or in the form of musical songs. However, like many other young people in Afghanistan, they fall in love and decide they want to be together.
Recommendations for political and legislative changes regarding honour related abuses were the main topic of the recent meeting for exchange of good practices with project partners
The two-day workshop on the project "Social and Legal Action to Combat Honour Related Abuses" took place in Sofia, with KUN partners joining online.
The most “problematic” form of honour-related violence in Bulgaria are early forced marriages
This shows a nationally representative study of the population on the basis of face-to-face interviews and in-depth interviews with experts, conducted by Association “Korektivi” under the „Social and legal action to combat honour related abuse“ project. Here are the details:
„Child Bride“[1] from … Bulgaria
"I paid her for a maiden, and you gave her to me dishonored."
"There was a case in Drenovets, a woman sold her 8-year-old daughter in Sofia. When the boy's parents came to pick her up, she started crying for the swing because she was swinging in the yard.
Honour related abuses - a report with the results of a survey conducted among experts
In April, Association Korektivi prepared an analytical report with the results of a survey conducted among experts through in-depth interviews.
The main questions that interested the researchers were what the experts meant by honour related abuses; what are the risk factors for the spread of honour related abuses, what is the assessment of experts on the level of spread of the phenomenon in the country, as well as to describe the socio-demographic profile of risk groups, to examine the opinion of experts on interaction, awareness and readiness to work on such cases and finally to summarize the recommendations received.