Joyce Banda is Malawi's first female vice president. Before taking office in 2009, Banda served as a member of parliament, minister of Gender, Child Welfare and Community Services, and minister of Foreign Affairs under President Binguwa Mutharika. At the
In April 1999 Paula Lucas, an American mother of three, had been living overseas for 14 years. She was in an abusive relationship in which her Palestinian husband victimized her and her three sons. Living in the United Arab Emirates, her options were limi