Most of the 5,000 honour killings reported to take place every year around the world do not make the news, nor do the other myriad forms of violence inflicted on women and girls by husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, uncles and other male – and sometimes even female – family members.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33971&Cr=violence+against+women&Cr1#.VXjOH89Vikp