How to change honour stories for saving lives?

Honour is not only an abstract notion but a highly valued and fiercely protected currency in many social groups and communities that consider women and girls the objects of the currency like paper banknotes with monetary value. Sadiq Bhanbhro is an interdisciplinary researcher with a mission to collect historical and contemporary evidence and engage the social groups and communities to bring change from within to end honour crimes, including honour killings of women and girls. For over a decade, he has been working with diverse communities in the UK and Pakistan on the issue of honour killings. Sadiq has a PhD on the political economy of community notions of honour and honour killings of women and girls in the UK and Pakistan. He has published empirical research, including book chapters and peer-reviewed papers on honour crimes, particularly honour killings. Sadiq offers evidence-based approaches by which honour crimes such as duelling in England, foot binding in China and wife burning (sati) in India were outlawed to provide a sustainable solution for tomorrow to eradicate harmful practices in the name of honour or otherwise.