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From Our Own Correspondent: Women at War

Women at War

02/05/2015

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Women at War

Stories of conflict, loss and recovery from El Salvador, Iraq, Vietnam and South Georgia

Stories of conflict and recovery: why El Salvador punishes abortion; meeting an Iraqi Christian in Mosul province; family grief in Vietnam; and South Georgia's resurgent wildlife.

Pascale Harter introduces stories of conflict, loss and recovery from around the world - with a special focus on women. Katy Watson explores why El Salvador's laws ban abortion so absolutely - and how they may be scapegoating poorer mothers-to-be and those who suffer miscarriage or stillbirth. Hannah Lucinda Smith meets a woman in her 80s who is one of the last remaining Christians in Iraq's Mosul province, and hears her account of surviving streetfighting and a brief occupation of her hometown by the so-called Islamic State group. Huong Ly remembers how her family reacted to the end of the war in Vietnam 40 years ago, and goes in search of her mother, one of North Vietnam's first female war correspondents, who vanished on assignment during the conflict. And Juliet Rix drinks in the extraordinary sights and sounds of South Georgia, in the southern Atlantic, an island once home to a hugely destructive whaling industry, but whose indigenous wildlife is now very much on the rebound.

Photo: A couple sits outside the National Maternity Hospital in San Salvador, on May 30, 2013. (Jose CABEZAS/AFP/Getty Images)

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