Legal Rights Institute

Near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a father doused his three teenage daughters with boiling water and shot them because, he told a court, he suspected they were having s*x. Two died. He said he killed them to defend his honour.

Murder in Iraq can carry a death sentence but under laws that activists say are far too lenient for so-called “honour killings,” the father was jailed for just two years. Medical examinations showed the girls were virgins.

"Honour killing" perpetrators deserve harsher sentences, say Iraqi women | News | National Post Women's activists in Iraq, led by the only woman in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's cabinet, are lobbying to change a law they say is far too lenient on men involved in so-called 'honour crimes'

Conditions for asylum seekers in Greece are atrocious. However, forum shopping, if in fact proven, is also unacceptable.

State questions asylum seekers' Greece claims - The Irish Times - Wed, Jun 29, 2011 THE GOVERNMENT has rejected claims that conditions are so bad for asylum seekers in Greece that their claims for international protection should be heard in Ireland.