Solutions

Honour killings is a difficult problem to solve because of the strong relation to religion and government that occurs within the countries in which honour killings occur. Many of the men who commit honour killings wrongly believe that the Qua-ran has told them to do so and Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states " Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice, and freedom, either individually or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching." Therefore if they believe they are practising Islam the UN would have to take away their rights to stop honour killing it would also be disrespectful to their culture if we decided to place our beliefs in their culture. The only problem is that they are taking away rights by killing women that have the right to live, According to Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights "Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his or her life." The UN is put in a very difficult situation that's why it is going to take a very long time to come up with a solution that is suitable for the dilemma at hand. They will ask the governments to punish the perpetrators but the other governments may get offended or disagree with the statement that honour killings are actually wrong. An invasion by the UN forces could cause a war, the UN doesn't want to put more lives on the line then already are so they are forced to wait for the governments where honour killings are predominant to ask for help instead of offering it.