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Women candidates for the Israeli Knesset are often drowned out in the never-ending debate over how to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians. They are expected, however, to pick up few seats in today’s election.
South Africa’s teachers, most of whom are women, are among the casualties of the country’s AIDS crisis. After years of denying the problem, the government now says it’s time to intervene.
In South Africa, where more people are affected by AIDS than anywhere else in the world, rape and other violence is putting women at increased risk of contracting the disease.