Spurred by the highest rates of AIDS infection, women in Lesotho and Swaziland are struggling to change laws and attitudes. Fourth in a series on emerging female leaders in Africa.
Advocates working against domestic violence say some of the hardest women to reach are migrant Latina women. One organization in Florida, which offers one-stop services and Spanish-speaking counselors, provides a model for outreach success.
Our correspondent recalls a buoyant afternoon spent with Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, seven years ago. Ederle died Nov. 30, at the age of 98.
Under-qualified for the new textile jobs that drew them to Lesotho’s capital city of Maseru, many young women from the famine-plagued countryside are surviving by selling sex, with and without a condom. Louise Bernikow’s “Our Story” follows.
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