Let's Stop the ‘Bloody’ Discrimination!
During December 2016, two teenage girls in Achham died because they were menstruating. This doesn’t mean that they became sick because of their menstruation, but rather, because they were isolated from their families in a small, cold hut, they lit a fire in an enclosed space and suffocated. Religious and cultural traditions in Far West Nepal meant that they had to spend the nights during their menstrual period outside of their house, because they were considered untouchable d
