The world must unite to fight women rights abuses

Navi Pillay

A girl befriends boys. What could be more normal and ordinary? Yet for doing just that a Turkish teenager was reportedly buried alive by her father and grandfather. This recent piece of news has been met with shock and outrage worldwide. Crimes such as this, however, are in no way exceptional. Indeed, a court in Arizona is hearing the case of a man accused of killing his daughter whom he allegedly considered too westernised. The UN estimates that 5,000 women are murdered by family members each year in so-called honour killings around the world.