Honor Killings: A Global View

This map gives a birds eye view of the extent of the practice of "honor killing". It does however leave out Australia, Indonesia, Netherlands, Germany, France, Britain, the Baltic region and some others, all of which suffer incidents of "honor killing".

The commonality of course is Islam. Every country is either Muslim majority or has well established immigrant Muslim enclaves.

In other words, pretty much all over the world.

FROM NPR.ORG:

Honor Killings: A Global View

In the name of family honor, "women and young girls are set ablaze, strangled, shot at, clubbed, stabbed, tortured, axed, or stoned to death," a United Nations report (PDF) stated in 2004.

No one knows just how many people are murdered each year to restore family honor. The killings often go unreported, and even when a murder is reported, it can be difficult distinguishing between an "honor killing" and an incident of domestic violence.

The map below shows countries where honor killings have been reported. But given the challenge of recording these incidents, the map should not be considered exhaustive.

Source: United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions
Credits: Ailsa Chang, Alyson Hurt and Robert Benincasa / NPR