Imagine about the explosion...

They're all dead... ..and their wives are widows.

I'll say one thing.

In the cities it's different.

Almost a third of the households (30.4 per cent) were headed by female adults, in most cases widows.

Widows of men who were termed quot martyrs quot were granted lodging, a vehicle, financial facilities, credits and higher salaries.

But thee must consider the duty thee owest to the other owners of this ship, widows and orphans, many of them.

He made you for a highway to my bed But I, a maid, die maiden widowed.

Girls also leave school to help their mothers who have become widows and also when they marry and or have children.

A total of 268 needy persons, including 4 widows and 3 disabled persons, benefited from UNHCR assistance.

Because when I said we ought to get married he said there were enough widows already.

Most African wives dread the season. They become soccer widows, as their husbands flock to bars.

There are female headed households without a link to males because women are unmarried, widowed, divorced or abandoned.

The report notes that women are rarely designated as head of household, except in instances where they are widowed or abandoned.

Special hardship assistance was also provided to 386 families headed by widowed, divorced and abandoned women married to non registered men.

That war has left us with orphans and invalids of all ages, widows, helpless old people and hundreds of thousands of economic victims.

Current challenges included the provision of income generating schemes for households run by widows, proper care for the injured, relief for those whose property had been confiscated or damaged and temporary shelter.

Many remained widows. But even more women were forced to head their household because the men left the rural areas in search of work.

It is often due to an uneven share of responsibility that women have in running the household, caring for children and even earning a living for the family as war widows.

Under his rule, 75 per cent of households had been run by widows and women, because most men had been killed mercilessly by Pol Pot's henchmen and zealous child soldiers.

Jake Adelstein reprinted parts of the scientific article entitled The Uranium Widows Why Would A Community Want To Return To Milling A Radioactive Element? by Peter Hessler, hoping to give some perspective on the radiation fear spreading in Japan.

Widows, 67 per cent of whom are aged between 18 30 years, told me that, even as wives of martyrs with an enhanced status, they are never free in a conservative patriarchal community.

But statistics alone are unimportant, as not a single life should have been lost in the first place above all, behind these cold statistics are real people husbands and wives, sons and daughters, all of whom perished leaving behind widows and widowers, as well as orphans.

This historic event put an end to many decades of hostility and rancour, which cost thousands of lives and left many wounded and many alone, orphaned or widowed all because of a lack of understanding which itself led to the destruction of the conditions for development in the Middle Eastern countries as a whole.

The Third Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the International Plan of Action on Ageing (E CN.5 1993 7) noted that over two thirds of the countries participating in the review had not adopted special measures to support elderly women and widows despite the increased likelihood of older women being economically disadvantaged or widowed.

395. Regarding the data in the second periodic report on the proportion of rural women who were heads of households, the representative said that no more contemporary data were available, but it could be assumed that the proportion had increased because many women had become widows or orphans as a result of the war.