Women
SWAZILAND: Girls trading sex for food rescued
Source: IRIN
The discovery of two brothels where underage girls worked for just food in a township in central Swaziland has triggered both shock and sympathy in a country struggling with chronic poverty and food insecurity.
Source: IRIN
The discovery of two brothels where underage girls worked for just food in a township in central Swaziland has triggered both shock and sympathy in a country struggling with chronic poverty and food insecurity.
Lathering up success in South Sudan for just US$1,000
Source: UNHCR
A group of 19 enterprising women in South Sudan is proving that it doesn't take a large investment to change the lives of former refugees after they return home.
Source: UNHCR
A group of 19 enterprising women in South Sudan is proving that it doesn't take a large investment to change the lives of former refugees after they return home.
PHILIPPINES: Smoked fish transforms
women's lives
Source: IRIN
For years, Daisy Balingit and other housewives in Santa Rita, an impoverished riverside village in Olangapo city, north of Manila, were statistically invisible - not enrolled in the social security system, they had no access to basic healthcare and eked out an existence.
Source: IRIN
For years, Daisy Balingit and other housewives in Santa Rita, an impoverished riverside village in Olangapo city, north of Manila, were statistically invisible - not enrolled in the social security system, they had no access to basic healthcare and eked out an existence.
PNG woman lashed to pole and burnt to death-media
Source: Reuters
PORT MORESBY, Jan 7 (Reuters) - A young Papua New Guinea woman was lashed naked to a pole and burnt to death in what authorities fear may be another sorcery killing in the jungle interior of the ...
Source: Reuters
PORT MORESBY, Jan 7 (Reuters) - A young Papua New Guinea woman was lashed naked to a pole and burnt to death in what authorities fear may be another sorcery killing in the jungle interior of the ...
PAKISTAN: Sex work a dangerous game
Source: IRIN
On Napier Road, the notorious red light district in Karachi, Pakistan's commercial centre and largest city, thousands of women regularly risk contracting HIV or other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) by having unprotected sex for as little as 50 Rupees (US$0.60).
Source: IRIN
On Napier Road, the notorious red light district in Karachi, Pakistan's commercial centre and largest city, thousands of women regularly risk contracting HIV or other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) by having unprotected sex for as little as 50 Rupees (US$0.60).