Abstract

Honour-based violence against women represents one of the most disturbing and culturally entrenched forms of gendered oppression arising from patriarchal norms and value systems that place a disproportionate burden on women to uphold familial reputation chastity obedience and community-defined morality. Across diverse societies honour becomes a symbolic currency through which families and communities negotiate identity social acceptance and upward mobility thereby making women the bearers of collective dignity whose individual choices freedoms and violations become grounds for punishment. This research paper examines honour-based violence through a legal lens interrogating the intersection of cultural customs gender power structures and state responsibility in preventing punishing and remedying such acts. The abstract outlines the core focus of the paper which includes a detailed examination of the legal conceptualization of honour-related crimes judicial interpretations legislative fr