However, some of their neighbors still have a way to go.
In Iran, a woman went to court to secure a judicial order for him to beat her once a week instead of every night according to the Oman Daily Observer. This woman had set quite limited goals for herself, but I'm glad she took some action. Once the judge finished laughing, he ordered the husband to cease beating his wife altogether.
In India, a poor woman thought her husband was either a deserter from the Indian Army or dead. After hearing nothing for four years, her family agreed she could remarry. She did so and is currently pregnant with her first child. Then her first husband reappears – he was captured by the Pakistanis and has been a POW all this time. The religious elders told her that according to Islamic law, she must go back to her first husband (who wants his wife back but does not want the child). She is complying with the law even though the All India Democratic Women's Association is outraged that no one is asking her what she wants to do in this difficult situation.
In Malaysia, the "Scorpion Queen" has reclaimed the world's record of the most days of living in a room of scorpions. She has spent 33 days (as of Thursday) living in box that measures 12 feet by 10 feet. She shares this box with 6,000 scorpions. The local news has been giving updates; the woman has been stung several times, but refuses to quit. Now that she has regained her world record (a person from Thailand beat her old record in 2002), she plans to coming out of the box on Saturday.