An honor killing or honour killing is generally a punitive murder, committed by members of a family against a female member of their family whom the family and/or wider community believes to have brought dishonor upon the family
However the killing of females by their own family members is rare except in tribal cultures of the Middle East and South Asia. Honor killing of female family members occurs among some rural Muslim communities with a strongly feudal tribal culture, as well as Druze and Christian tribes in some Arab countries and Pakistan. It also occurs among other South Asian communities, including Hindu and Sikh adherents in India, the United Kingdom and Canada. However, it is much rarer or non-existent in the Muslim communities of most of Central Asia (including Kazakhstan and Kyrghyzstan), Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, sub-Saharan Africa, Malaysia and Indonesia due to its cultural roots.
An honor killing or honour killing is generally a punitive murder, committed by members of a family against a female member of their family whom the family and/or wider community believes to have brought dishonor upon the family
However the killing of females by their own family members is rare except in tribal cultures of the Middle East and South Asia. Honor killing of female family members occurs among some rural Muslim communities with a strongly feudal tribal culture, as well as Druze and Christian tribes in some Arab countries and Pakistan. It also occurs among other South Asian communities, including Hindu and Sikh adherents in India, the United Kingdom and Canada. However, it is much rarer or non-existent in the Muslim communities of most of Central Asia (including Kazakhstan and Kyrghyzstan), Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, sub-Saharan Africa, Malaysia and Indonesia due to its cultural roots.