Healthy periods
Ensuring taboo-free and safe menstruation for all Nepali women on World Menstrual Hygiene Day, 28 May
menstrual-health
Shamed for bleeding
Nepali women still have to deal with period shame
New contraceptive for increased lockdown demand
For the past two decades, Basanti Paudel, 41, of Nawalpur had always used Depo-Provera to prevent unwanted pregnancies Then last year, she was...
Tipping point on menstrual banishment in Nepal
It is when local women take the lead to end the practice that it is most effective
Communicating to remove menstrual taboo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezfdhBKEtsEGrowing up in Chitwan, Radha Paudel’s father used to tell her stories of faraway Jumla: how it took weeks to walk there,...
Nepal’s superwomen beat superstition
Media reports of the practice of chhaupadi are full of harrowing tales of suffering, and women dying of cold or suffocation during...
That time of the month
The practice of chhaupadi in which women in western Nepal are banished to cow sheds during their periods grabs a lot of media...
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