NEPAL: Emerging from menstrual quarantine

Amy Lieberman - IRIN - Friday, 5 August 2011 (originally published 3 Aug)   MANGALSEN, 3 August 2011 (IRIN) – Every month, for one week,14-year-old Kamala Vishwarkarmas returns from school to sleep alone in a dark, windowless mud hut. She is forbidden from entering her family’s house during her menstrual cycle for fear of what [More]

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