Honour Based Violence

The @BBC and the misuse of scare quotes

July 18, 2016, Admin EVB Analysis, Media Complaints,

Punctuation isn’t usually something we comment on. As a general rule, the words used by media are so inappropriate that commenting on their misuse of scare quotes seems unnecessary. Then we saw this tweet: We can’t quite work out what the BBC was aiming for with scare quotes around the word killer. Wasim Azeem, the brother […]

Domestic Abuse, domestic violence, Honour Based Violence, male entitlement, male violence

@CRASAC : Price of Honour: Exploring the Issues of Sexual Violence within South Asian Communities in Coventry.

September 26, 2014, Admin EVB Analysis,

We attended CRASAC’s release of their new report: Price of Honour: Exploring the Issues of Sexual Violence within South Asian Communities in Coventry. We highly recommend this research for the information within but also as an example of good self-reflective practice. We have storified our live tweets of the release.

CRASAC, Honour Based Violence, Misogyny, Price of Honour