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Hace 4 días · Chhaupadi, a deeply rooted cultural practice in Nepal, mandates that menstruating women be isolated from their homes and families, often confined to small, unhygienic huts or cow sheds. For women with disabilities, this practice is even more detrimental.
28 de may. de 2024 · Chhaupadi presents grave physical and psychological risks for women, and continues to affect up to 95 per cent of women in rural areas in the Far and Mid-Western regions of Nepal. Under this practice, menstruating women of all castes are physically segregated from society and forbidden to enter their own homes, interact with others ...
16 de may. de 2024 · The recent death of a 16-year-old girl in the Baitadi district of Nepal during menstruation is a disturbing example of Chhaupadi risk. This practice of isolating menstruating individuals has ...
27 de may. de 2024 · Chhaupadi is the isolation of girls and women in so-called “menstruation huts” during their period and is still practised in some communities, despite being illegal in Nepal since 2005. The deaths are most often caused by bites from poisonous snakes or by carbon monoxide gas from wood stoves that provide heat.
Hace 6 días · Cultural practices also pose challenges. For example, Chhaupadi, an ancient tradition in rural Nepal, banishes menstruating girls to mud huts or sheds, risking their health and well-being.5
21 de may. de 2024 · The day she got her first period, when she was 12, was the day she felt fear, shame and panic like never before. It worsened when her elder sister told her that she had to leave home and stay at the menstrual hut outside their house.
26 de may. de 2024 · It is hardly a surprise that whenever the chhaupadi huts are brought down in western Nepal, they come right back up. There could be no better example of society's attempt to control women, including their sexual and reproductive lives.
