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Despite the improved mood on the streets of Yangon since the end of military rule, the country’s girls and women are still heavily trafficked. One businesswoman is raising awareness and using her factory to offer employment.
Lida moved from a subsistence existence in rural Cambodia to a senior staff job at a women’s advocacy organization in the city. But she still wonders what would have happened if she had said “yes” to a beautiful foreigner at a pagoda three years ago.
Yingluck Shinawatra may well become Thailand’s first female prime minister after July 3 elections. But women’s rights advocates aren’t enthusiastic, seeing her as a place-holder for her powerful brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in 2006.
HIV activists in Thailand are monitoring plans for trial of an anti-HIV gel, set for 2007. If the product comes to market they say it must be affordable in Thailand, where married women are one of the fastest-growing HIV-infected populations.
Thailand’s simmering armed conflict has claimed more than 1,700 lives and has created a population of widows. Some have moved to a peaceful, gated widows’ village built by the East Asian nation’s queen.
Molly Ginty spent a day interviewing a local prostitute and her American client while boating off the coast of Thailand, a nation where as many as 2.8 million sex workers serve the tourist trade. She found the scales of their partnership off balance.
With 46 million U.S. citizens living without health insurance–and millions of others underinsured or unable to get adequate care–a growing number of U.S. women are flocking to a Thai hospital for treatments they can’t afford at home.
A recent study bandied about in the news media finds women are more happily married when their husbands win the bread. The finding is so different from related research that our commentators call it an “outlier” not to be trusted.
A landmark U.N. study of domestic violence–launched at the start of the current 16-day campaign–is giving hope to activists in Thailand. They say the grim statistics could help them fight a bill pending in Parliament.