PRAGNA PATEL

Question 1

“To perceive honour based violence as a ‘harmful cultural practice’ is to de-link it from debates on violence against women and the human rights framework, and this can lead to the…

Answer 1

‘other-ing’ of gender based violence.”

Question 2

“In practice this translates into CULTURALLY RELATIVIST approaches on the one hand, and on the other to racist constructions of minorities in which the notion of culture and its link to violence against women is attributed only to…

Answer 2

minorities”