Confined by tradition: Nepalese women keeping warm by a fire as they live in a chhaupadi hut during their menstruation period. — AFP
ON July 6, a woman who was observing chhaupadi, died of a snakebite in Dailekh, Nepal.
And in December last year, police investigated the death of a 15-year-old girl in Accham, another district in Nepal, who was banished to a poorly-ventilated shed because she was menstruating.
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