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Old 12-13-2007, 10:44 AM   #32
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Some pretty horrific stats around Honor and Dowry killings

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ling.html'

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In India, for example, more than 5,000 brides die annually because their dowries are considered insufficient, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Crimes of passion, which are treated extremely leniently in Latin America, are the same thing with a different name, some rights advocates say
http://www.gendercide.org/case_honour.html
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