Finding an apartment to rent in India’s New Delhi as a single Western woman proved a challenge, as journalist Miranda Kennedy recounts in an excerpt from her book, “Sideways on a Scooter.” Then, she created a fictional husband.
Delphine Minoui’s book, now out in English, puts the reader in the shoes of a Yemeni girl married at age 10. When the girl divorced her husband, she spotlighted the sufferings of child brides. Book royalties now support the ex-bride and her parents.
Three female radio reporters in Bukavu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have received death threats via a cell phone text message. That’s spreading a chill in a city where three male journalists have been killed since 2007.
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