Typhoid cases reported in south In my personal opinion, the typhoid is unrelated to the nuclear waste dump. Regular typhoid is bad enough – we don’t need radioactive mutant typhoid to make people sick.
Month: February 2006
Typhoid cases reported in south In my personal opinion, the typhoid is unrelated to the nuclear waste dump. Regular typhoid is bad enough – we don’t need radioactive mutant typhoid to make people sick.
New CBCP position vs birth control backfiring? An interesting discussion of the politics of contraception in the Philippines.
New CBCP position vs birth control backfiring? An interesting discussion of the politics of contraception in the Philippines.
New CBCP position vs birth control backfiring? An interesting discussion of the politics of contraception in the Philippines.
KYRGYZSTAN: More than 60 trafficked women detained This is interesting. Some of them had no idea they were going for sex work, some did. But, in my experience, even the women who know they’re traveling for sex work expect to be prostitutes, not slaves.
Many Uzbeks, even sophisticated people from Tashkent, have no idea just how bad the world can be. It’s a good thing, I suppose, that life here is safe enough that people don’t need to know. A friend of a friend went to Germany to marry a man she’d met in Tashkent and known for three days. Her friends were worried about her, but they were worried he’d refuse to marry her, or turn out to be a bad husband. I was worried he’d chain her to the wall in his basement and rent her out to his friends.
KYRGYZSTAN: More than 60 trafficked women detained This is interesting. Some of them had no idea they were going for sex work, some did. But, in my experience, even the women who know they’re traveling for sex work expect to be prostitutes, not slaves.
Many Uzbeks, even sophisticated people from Tashkent, have no idea just how bad the world can be. It’s a good thing, I suppose, that life here is safe enough that people don’t need to know. A friend of a friend went to Germany to marry a man she’d met in Tashkent and known for three days. Her friends were worried about her, but they were worried he’d refuse to marry her, or turn out to be a bad husband. I was worried he’d chain her to the wall in his basement and rent her out to his friends.