A Day in the Life of Women Around the Globe

A Lebanese woman is comforted by neighbours and her son (C) after her relatives' house was destroyed by an Israeli air raid on the south Lebanese village of Ghassaniyeh August 7, 2006. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho (LEBANON)

An injured Iraqi woman is moved by her relatives on a stretcher after receiving treatment at a hospital, in Baghdad, Iraq , Monday Aug. 7, 2006. Iraqi and U.S. forces raided a Shiite militia stronghold of Baghdad Monday, triggering a gunbattle that left three people dead and 12 were injured, including five children and two women, after they raided the area to catch extremists suspected of running torture cells. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

A Thai woman raises a placard as some 500 Thai activists demonstrate outside the office of GlaxoSmithKline in Bangkok. Hundreds of Thais with HIV have protested outside the Bangkok office of drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline to demand that the British pharmaceutical firm drop its effort to patent a key AIDS drug in Thailand.(AFP)

A Chinese woman looking exhausted as she pulls out dried crops in the drought stricken region in Yuzhong, northwest China's Gansu Monday Aug 7, 2006. Even as typhoons and floodings affect the southern region of China, its northern provinces are struggling with a lack of water. (AP Photo)

Sri Lankan woman at a refugee camp. Sri Lankan troops launched fresh artillery attacks against Tamil rebel positions, a day after the guerrillas warned that shelling could lead to all-out war.(AFP/Lakruwan Wanniarachchi)

A Lebanese woman mourns the loss of her relatives after their house was destroyed by an Israeli air raid on the south Lebanese village of Ghassaniyeh August 7,2006. (Ali Hashisho/Reuters)