Worldwide Trends in Honor Killings by Chesler discusses the attempts made to decline and eliminate honour killing. It tells of the meetings in Europe and how the UK tried to reopen old cases in order to determine if they were honour crimes. The article continues on to say that in most cases honour killings aren’t defined as such. In the study discussed by Chesler, there are two types of honour killings and two different age groups. These groups are compared to Western domestic femicide and it is concludes that the two studies are not similar to them. The article tells statistics about the individuals that were killed, a few were: 42% of the women killed were killed by more then one perpetrator, more then half the victims were tortured, and
