It's 2017, but in countries across the Arab world, women are still murdered for "dishonoring" their families.

This includes Jordan, an Arab country that records some of the highest numbers of so called honor killings every single year.

How could "honor" and "killing" be part of the same phrase? What do people who commit such crimes perceive honor as? And why are there laws that still protect those who commit such crimes?

These are a few of the questions that women, surviving victims, and activists fighting to end "honor" crimes continue to ask.

We spoke to a few of them and here's what they had to say: