Nepal offering cash to women to end the practice of ‘menstrual huts’
he custom remains prevalent in Nepal's remote west where some communities fear misfortune, such as a natural disaster, unless menstruating women and girls - seen as impure - are sent away to animal sheds or huts. Image: REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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