Sentence examples for bride burning from inspiring English sources
Samju was later killed in a fire that a fellow student, writing Ms. Ewald this year, described as a bride burning.
In India, a "bride burning" takes place approximately once every two hours, to punish a woman for an inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry — but these rarely constitute news.
Such dowry disputes sometimes lead to what has become known as "dowry deaths" or "bride burning".
Bride burning, a form of domestic violence, occurs in some cultures, such as India where women have been burned in revenge for what the husband or his family consider an inadequate dowry.
Some of the practices involved in such cases include genital mutilation, bride burning, rape, mass rape, sexual abuse, spousal abuse, infanticide, forced marriage, child marriage, slavery, forced abortion and forced pregnancy.
In India, more than 6,000 "bride burnings" or other dowry deaths were reported in 1997.
In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape.
In the book Half the Sky Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn write that the paramount moral challenge of the 21st century "is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape".
We don't allow indentured servitude, the selling of children into sexual slavery, the right of a man to beat his wife, the right to keep girls uneducated, honor killings, bride burnings, assaults on homosexuals, or fatwas that instruct people to main or kill anyone who is seen to have insulted religion.
Some cultural practices such as genital mutilation — or foot-binding or bride-burning — are too brutish to defer to.
