Calgary conference to shine the light on honour-based violence
Posted Nov 12, 2013 8:11 am.
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The Alberta Community Crime Prevention Association is hosting a two day conference to raise awareness about the serious social problem of honour-based violence.
Members with the Calgary Police Service will join other Alberta law enforcement officers, lawyers, teachers, counsellors, health care providers, judges, prosecutors and members of the general public to learn more about the problem.
Honour-based violence is a very complex social problem, where if a person brings shame to their family or community group he or she could be punished, possibly killed.
There are estimates there are at least five thousand “honour killings ” around the world each year, but officials say the actual number could be much higher, with many other vicious crimes misreported as suicides or accidents.
Kathy Macdonald with the ACCPA tells 660News, it’s not only important to raise awareness about the problem, but help people identify the warning signs.
Back in 2009, the bodies of three teenage girls and a woman were found in a car floating in an Ontario Canal.
Eventually three members of the Shafia family, originally from Afghanistan, were convicted of first degree murder.
