Human rights activists across the world have been horrified by the latest so-called honour killing in Pakistan, which took place in public, outside the High Court in Lahore.
A woman was stoned to death by her family, because she'd married a man for love.
One Australian community worker says women here are at risk too, and she recently had to talk a father and son out of killing a family member for getting pregnant.
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Farzana Paveen fell in love - and it cost her her life.
The 25-year old Pakistani woman had recently married 45-year-old Mohammad Iqbal and was three months pregnant with his child.
Her family disapproved, accusing Mr Iqbal of abducting Farzana and forcing her to marry him.
The pair had come to the High Court in Lahore to fight the charges.
According to her lawyer, Farzana was planning to tell the court her marriage was not forced.
But in a country where marrying for love is considered a serious transgression, Farzana's family believed her actions reflected badly on them.
So badly, in fact, that they killed her.
According to police, her relatives were waiting for her outside court.
As she and her husband walked up to the main gate, one brother shot at her while others tried to snatch her away.
When she resisted, more than 20 of her relatives, including her father and brothers, started beating her with bricks from a nearby construction site.
She died on the street from head wounds, in front of a crowd of onlookers.
Farzana's father reportedly surrendered after the incident, telling police "I killed my daughter as she had insulted all of our family by marrying a man without our consent, and I have no regret over it."
Amnesty International's Karen Trentini says it's rare to see an honour killing carried out in public in an urban setting.
But she says hundreds of women are killed in private every year in Pakistan - murdered by their husbands or relatives as punishment for alleged adultery or other sexual behaviour.
"Many more cases go unreported and almost all go unpunished. Women are killed for choosing their own husband, for divorcing and for being raped. And sometimes they are abducted and not heard of again. And the killing of Farzana Parzeen reflects the traditional views that men have the ultimate control over women at all times and while a public killing outside of a court is not common, honour killings happen wherever the male relatives decide and that can be in public or in private places."
Karen Trentini says honour killings persist because often, the perpetrators are immune from prosecution.
"Violence against women is entrenched in Pakistan's traditional and tribal customary law and while honor killing is a crime a current legal loophole actually allows perpetrators to escape punishment as the family of the victim may accept compensation and therefore pardon the perpetrator so this further entrenches the acceptance of honour killings. What needs to happen is that the Pakistan government or police or judicial officials apply laws and penalties consistently and in line with Pakistan's obligations under international law."
Australia doesn't have the problem that Pakistan has.
But director of Sydney's Immigrant Women's Health Service, Dr Emam Sharobeem, says just recently she heard of a father and son threatening harm against an unmarried, pregnant female relative.
"In an angry moment any person can do anything. Saving an honour, for some communities, it's the only thing people live for, no matter where they are. Whether they are serious or not, whether they are ÀÈ.à¹.E'E(threatening or not I can not determine and I can not play with the risk of yes or no. When you hear the words "we will kill her" intervention has to happen."
By gaining their respect over a series of meetings, Dr Sharobeem negotiated a deal to stop the woman being hurt.
"The father and the son agreed on marrying her off and as a consequence she is saved but also it was promised that after she would have the baby they would force her to divorce, just at least to have a child registered as a child with both parents but they are not happy with this marriage and this relation. So as I said, saving a girl, saving a young woman, saving a child, it happened with a price or consequence but at least no blood had been shed."
Dr Sharobeem says early intervention is the key to preventing honour killings from happening in Australia.
The Immigrant Women's Health Service regularly connects with migrants, advising them about Australian laws and human rights.
"Many of our communities migrated without the concept of, or the meaning or the understanding of human rights. It must be explained to new migrants and new communities just in case if they are not aware of it and how to apply it in their new country as well in Australia. Why your freedom should not affect my freedom, why your space should be respected equally to mine."
Sadly for Fazana Paveen in Pakistan, no such message reached her angry family.
As her body was given to her husband for burial, police said they intended to go after everyone involved in her death.
But activists say the fact that the family members felt safe enough to kill her outside a courtroom speaks volumes.
