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Many communities in Nepal view menstruating women as impure and in some remote areas they are forced to sleep in a hut away from home during their periods, a custom known as chhaupadi. (Photo: Pixabay/Representational)

Nepal criminalises isolation of menstruating women after teen's death

The new law stipulates a three-month jail sentence or a 3,000 rupee fine, or both, for anyone forcing a woman to follow...

10 Aug 2017 12:55 PM IST

Nepals newly elected prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, center, waves to the media at the Parliament House in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Photo: AP)

Nepal criminalises banishing women from home during menstruation

Supreme Court banned chhaupadi more than a decade ago but it is still followed in parts of Nepal, particularly in remote...

9 Aug 2017 6:48 PM IST

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Nepali teenager banished during her period dies of snakebite: charity

The practice of 'chhaupadi' banishes menstruating girls and women to animal sheds for the duration of their period.

11 July 2017 12:47 PM IST