High Mortality Rates in Tajik Maternity Hospitals
Rural women balancing housework and manual farm labour seen as especially vulnerable to health problems.
1 Oct 15
Rural women balancing housework and manual farm labour seen as especially vulnerable to health problems.
Money supports whole communities, but earning it can destroy families.
Strains caused when husbands are absent for months or years.
Maternity system examined in IWPR radio show.
Returning to families can be as hard as finding work.
Caught while smuggling food past government soldiers.
At the age of 105, a grandmother remains a staunch revolutionary.
Once a husband decides to make his temporary stay abroad more permanent, there is little that wives can do to secure maintenance.