Prominent Jordanian lawyer and women's rights activist Asma Khader of WLP Jordan/Sisterhood is Global Institute/Jordan (SIGI/J) discusses two advocacy campaigns that took place in Jordan (relating to violence against women and legal age for marriage).
Filmed in Jordan and on the West Bank, Crimes of Honour documents the terrible reality of femicide - the killing of sisters or daughters suspected of losing their virginity, for having refused an arranged marriage or having left a husband.
Throughout history, the unequal status of women in the family has been remarkably similar in countries all over the world. Relationships between men and women and boys and girls have been hierarchical and segmented by gender roles. The unequal status of women and men in the home, in particular, has modeled and sustained inequality in society at large.
