Sunday, February 07, 2010

LIZ JONES: Honour killings? What we've done to young Emma is just as shameful | Mail Online

"LIZ JONES: Honour killings? What we've done to young Emma is just as shameful

By Liz Jones

Two very different teenage girls made headlines around the world last week. The first was Emma Watson, the 19-year-old star of the Harry Potter movie franchise.

She was named as the highest-earning female in Hollywood in 2009, only one of two women to make it on to the list of the industry’s top 20 earners.

The second was 16-year-old Medine Memi – her first name means ‘civilisation’. Her body was discovered tied to a chair in a hole in the garden of her home in a small village in south-eastern Turkey."

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