The marriage market for Indian HIV patients | DW Documentary

 

One doctor in India gave many of her HIV/AIDs patients hope by helping them find partners. More than two million Indians are HIV positive. Many conceal their illness because of the stigma.

China Doesn't Like That I'm a Single Woman, Here's Why | Op-Docs

In this Op-Doc, based on the Independent Lens feature documentary “Leftover Women,” we follow one of those women — Qiu Huamei, contending with the stigma and social pressure forcing her to go on a grueling quest in search of a husband. She grew up in a small village five hours south of Beijing and is the second youngest of five sisters. Ms. Qiu is a successful lawyer, fluent in English and opinionated — but those qualities do not outweigh one key flaw: She is not married.

Why This Japanese Woman Got Married to A Japanese AV Actor

Too Young to Say "I Do" - Child Marriage in Indonesia

Ibu Rayhan was married off at the age of eleven and became pregnant soon afterwards. Today she is fighting to stop child marriages in Indonesia. On the Indonesian island of Lombok, men traditionally have the say. Women and girls are expected to obey their wishes. In Indonesia, around one in every seven girls is married before the age of 18. Instead of attending school or getting an education, many child brides are subjected to beatings and abuse. Ibu Rayhan knows this only too well; she was married off at the age of 11. Now, together with Ulla, a fellow activist, she visits villages on Lombok and tries to change attitudes -- especially among the boys.

Millions of single Chinese men desperately seeking a wife

In China, the one-child policy has wreaked havoc. By encouraging the birth of boys rather than girls, an imbalance of the sexes has emerged. China now counts far more men than women. Millions of these men, now of marriageable age, are desperately seeking a wife - and they will do anything to try to find one, even if it means buying one abroad or even kidnapping a woman. Marjolaine Grappe and Christophe Barreyre tell us more in this documentary.
The Chinese call them "Guang gun", "dead branches" which will never bear fruit. In short, men condemned to a life without a wife, without children, and without the hope of one day starting a family. In China, there are already millions of these bachelors in search of a soulmate and their ranks are swelling. Ten years ago, there was talk of the "curse of being born a girl". As a result of the one-child policy – in force until 2015 - millions of little girls were killed before they were born or just afterwards. Sometimes they were abandoned shortly after their birth. Most families preferred to give birth to a boy, so that he could carry on the family line.