ABSTRACT
Chapter five discusses honour killing, the most severe form of honour based violence. The most interesting part here is the discussion of honour (or the injury to honour) as a defence. Honour is still used and accepted as a defence to criminal accusations and may lead to lower, more lenient sentences. There are also countries that still accept the victim marrying her rapist as a solution. However, the chapter makes clear that there are shortcomings in the way honour killings are dealt with, both at a national level and at an international level. Cases are used to good effect to illustrate a number of problems, including the issue under the Refugee Convention 1951.
