Practice of banishing women to small outbuildings during periods claims further victims despite country declaring practice illegal
A woman and her two sons have suffocated to death in a windowless shed to which they were banished in the latest tragedy linked to the illegal practice of chhaupadi, whereby women in Nepal are forced to sleep in “period huts”.
Police said Amba Bohara, 35, had spent four days in the cowshed with her sons Ramit, nine, and Suresh, 12, when her father-in-law discovered their bodies on Wednesday morning.
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Written by Arun Budhathoki in Kathmandu and Michael Safi in Delhi
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