Sixteen-year-old Aqsa Parvez was strangled to death last December after she and her father Muhammed Parvez had quarreled over her refusal to wear the hijab (Muslim headscarf).  Mr Parvez was arrested the day of her death and initially charged with…

Last week 56 British MPs praised police worker Philip Balmforth for publicising the hidden problem of forced marriages of school children, calling the vulnerable persons officer for the Bradford district a "hero" and a "knight in shining…

The British government is stepping up its campaign to raise public awareness of the issue of forced marriages, but schools in areas where the practice is believed to be prevalent refuse to go along.  They’re afraid of offending parents.
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Two young Arab women in Israel have been shot, one fatally, in suspected honour killings.
An 18-year-old was shot dead in her home in Ramla, south of Tel Aviv.  The unknown assailant escaped, but she had received death threats from family members…

The disclosure last week that 33 pupils in Bradford, England, are missing and unaccounted for was just the tip of the iceberg. It has now been revealed that over 2000 children who should be in school are not. Dr Nazia Khanum, a management consultant hi…