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1887:, a Kurdish Muslim girl who immigrated with her family from Turkey. The Centre for Gender and Violence Research report finds that: "Both HBV survivors and women's NGOs working with them continue to encounter inadequate responses and poor practice which needs to be addressed, as well as potentially racist, judgmental and stigmatizing attitudes". The Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation has called for a national strategy to address the problem of honour killings. Other UK-based Kurdish organisations attempting to tackle the issue of honour killings include Kurdish Women Action Against Honour Killing. 1865:
that "onour-based violence remains prevalent in Kurdish communities in different locations", including the UK. The report finds that "the patriarchal or male-dominated values that underpin these communities often conflict with the values, and even laws, of mainstream UK society. This makes it particularly hard for second or third generation women to define their own values...Instances of HBV often result from conflicting attitudes towards life and family codes".
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A report published by the Centre for Gender and Violence Research at the University of Bristol and the University of Roehampton in 2010 notes that "it is important to recognize that it is not possible to associate honour-based violence with one particular religion...or culture", but also concludes
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Writing in 2009, criminologist Aisha Gill noted that little research had taken place into honour crimes in the UK, and that this lack of evidence was "particularly marked in the case of Iranian and Kurdish communities, where the incidence of honor crimes is increasing".
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Gill, Aisha (2009). "Honor Killings and the Quest for Justice in Black and Minority Ethnic Communities in the United Kingdom".
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In the 2011 census, "Kurdish" was not one of the predefined tick-box answers for the ethnicity question on the
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first arrived in Britain in large numbers during the 1980s, mostly from the disputed territories of
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source, the Kurdish community in the UK numbered around 50,000 in 2002, among which
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Begikhani, Nazand; Gill, Aisha; Hague, Gill; Ibraheem, Kawther (November 2010).
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The Iraqi Muslim Community in England: Understanding Muslim Ethnic Communities
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Immigration to the United Kingdom by country of origin
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make up the largest group, exceeding the numbers from
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