India And Females ..... Nepali Girl Was Menstruating ... Forced To Live In A Shed And Dies (44)
That is common practice in lots of places.
But I didn't get the connection to India
But I didn't get the connection to India
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mollybaby: That is common practice in lots of places.
But I didn't get the connection to India
But I didn't get the connection to India
Isn't Nepal in India?
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secretagent09: Isn't Nepal in India?
Nope, it is an independent country
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mollybaby: Nope, it is an independent country
Regardless, it's a shameful custom in my opinion.
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secretagent09: Regardless, it's a shameful custom in my opinion.
Yeah it is
These kind of things are usually practiced in remote villages.
And continue to be even if they are made illegal by central government
Education is needed at all levels
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mollybaby: Yeah it is
These kind of things are usually practiced in remote villages.
And continue to be even if they are made illegal by central government
Education is needed at all levels
These kind of things are usually practiced in remote villages.
And continue to be even if they are made illegal by central government
Education is needed at all levels
How is education going to stop this custom? This is a human interest story.
Are you saying that people need to be educated on how menstruation affects the fertility/reproductive system of a woman. Isn't it common sense that menstruation is a normal thing for women all over the world?
They are punishing women for being women
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secretagent09: How is education going to stop this custom? This is a human interest story.
Are you saying that people need to be educated on how menstruation affects the fertility/reproductive system of a woman. Isn't it common sense that menstruation is a normal thing for women all over the world?
They are punishing women for being women
Are you saying that people need to be educated on how menstruation affects the fertility/reproductive system of a woman. Isn't it common sense that menstruation is a normal thing for women all over the world?
They are punishing women for being women
by educating the younger generation who can affect the change that's needed.
the older generation are stuck in their rituals and evil thoughts and beliefs.
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maneuver1: by educating the younger generation who can affect the change that's needed.
the older generation are stuck in their rituals and evil thoughts and beliefs.
the older generation are stuck in their rituals and evil thoughts and beliefs.
Perhaps but like you say it's the older generation who make the rules. Until the older ones die all females who get their period will be forced to live in a cold shed.
She will try to survive that life every month until she goes through menopause
Ostracizing women is on a large scale.
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Brutal 
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from what i understand, most of the young don't believe in these rituals and customs. they go along with it because their mothers and grandmothers went through it. by educating the young on the health ramifications as well as lost production for the country, i think the practice will slowly fade away.
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secretagent09: A 15-year-old girl has died in Nepal's western Achram district after she was banished to a shed because she was menstruating, under an ancient Hindu practice that has been banned for more than a decade, police said.
"We are investigating the case. We suspect that she died of suffocation from the smoke of a fire she lit to keep herself warm," local district inspector Badri Prasad Dhakal told the AFP news agency on Monday.
Local media identified the girl as Roshani Tiruwa.
Some Hindus view menstruating women as impure and in parts of Nepal they are forced to remain in a hut or cowshed for days, a practice known as chhaupadi.
Truwa's father told Nepalese newspaper My Republica that she had had an evening meal at around 6pm on Friday and went inside the shed to sleep.
When it was late in the morning and she had not been seen, he gave her a call from outside.
"Then we saw her dead body," he said.
According to the newspaper, Truwa was a ninth grader at Rastara Bhasah Secondary School and was undergoing the third day of menstruation at the time of her death.
Under the chhaupadi practice, women are banned from taking part in normal family activities during menstruation and after childbirth, and can have no contact with men of the household.
The Hindu tradition is common to all castes in the region. Women who violate the practice are blamed for crop failures, illnesses and sudden deaths of animals.
There are previous reports of chhaupadi leading to deaths, attacks by wild animals, snakebites, diseases, rapes, poor mental health, and infants dying of pneumonia.
In recent years, some women have turned their back on the ritual: a few burnt their sheds, and some villages are known as "chhaupadi-free zones".
But although the country's Supreme Court banned practising chhaupadi in 2005, the custom dies hard. It remains firmly rooted in many villages, especially in remote hill areas.
Mohna Ansari of Nepal's National Human Rights Commission said local leaders must do more to enforce the ban.
"We have a legal ban but the law enforcement forces have not been strong about implementing it," she said.
"It is crucial for us to work to change the attitudes of the people and raise awareness against this practice.
A 2011 UN report estimated that 95 percent of women in Achham district follow it.
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies
Women's Rights Nepal Human Rights Asia
This kind of news make everybody sad.
"We are investigating the case. We suspect that she died of suffocation from the smoke of a fire she lit to keep herself warm," local district inspector Badri Prasad Dhakal told the AFP news agency on Monday.
Local media identified the girl as Roshani Tiruwa.
Some Hindus view menstruating women as impure and in parts of Nepal they are forced to remain in a hut or cowshed for days, a practice known as chhaupadi.
Truwa's father told Nepalese newspaper My Republica that she had had an evening meal at around 6pm on Friday and went inside the shed to sleep.
When it was late in the morning and she had not been seen, he gave her a call from outside.
"Then we saw her dead body," he said.
According to the newspaper, Truwa was a ninth grader at Rastara Bhasah Secondary School and was undergoing the third day of menstruation at the time of her death.
Under the chhaupadi practice, women are banned from taking part in normal family activities during menstruation and after childbirth, and can have no contact with men of the household.
The Hindu tradition is common to all castes in the region. Women who violate the practice are blamed for crop failures, illnesses and sudden deaths of animals.
There are previous reports of chhaupadi leading to deaths, attacks by wild animals, snakebites, diseases, rapes, poor mental health, and infants dying of pneumonia.
In recent years, some women have turned their back on the ritual: a few burnt their sheds, and some villages are known as "chhaupadi-free zones".
But although the country's Supreme Court banned practising chhaupadi in 2005, the custom dies hard. It remains firmly rooted in many villages, especially in remote hill areas.
Mohna Ansari of Nepal's National Human Rights Commission said local leaders must do more to enforce the ban.
"We have a legal ban but the law enforcement forces have not been strong about implementing it," she said.
"It is crucial for us to work to change the attitudes of the people and raise awareness against this practice.
A 2011 UN report estimated that 95 percent of women in Achham district follow it.
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies
Women's Rights Nepal Human Rights Asia
This kind of news make everybody sad.
Very sad news.
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Sad 
I remember reading a book called 'The Red Tent' I think, whose title refers to this custom.
Not so long ago Women in the West were 2nd class citizens and it was largely through education (common sense really) that this practice ended, and offered equality to all. (At least in practice
)
Hopefully other cultures catch up soon.
Hiya Monte
I remember reading a book called 'The Red Tent' I think, whose title refers to this custom.
Not so long ago Women in the West were 2nd class citizens and it was largely through education (common sense really) that this practice ended, and offered equality to all. (At least in practice
)Hopefully other cultures catch up soon.
Hiya Monte
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Aragorn11: Sad
I remember reading a book called 'The Red Tent' I think, whose title refers to this custom.
Not so long ago Women in the West were 2nd class citizens and it was largely through education (common sense really) that this practice ended, and offered equality to all. (At least in practice )
Hopefully other cultures catch up soon.
Hiya Monte
I remember reading a book called 'The Red Tent' I think, whose title refers to this custom.
Not so long ago Women in the West were 2nd class citizens and it was largely through education (common sense really) that this practice ended, and offered equality to all. (At least in practice )
Hopefully other cultures catch up soon.
Hiya Monte
Don't hold your breath...
It's their culture and I bet yours isn't their goal...
Just read about the Pakistany airline whose airplane crashed recently performing a goat sacrifice to break the bad luck... And aviation engineers and pilots are educated people, I think...
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KremaP: Don't hold your breath...
It's their culture and I bet yours isn't their goal...
Just read about the Pakistany airline whose airplane crashed recently performing a goat sacrifice to break the bad luck... And aviation engineers and pilots are educated people, I think...
It's their culture and I bet yours isn't their goal...
Just read about the Pakistany airline whose airplane crashed recently performing a goat sacrifice to break the bad luck... And aviation engineers and pilots are educated people, I think...
Hi Krema,
nope I won't be, will take a long time, but we can hope.
As I said, not long ago Western cultures treated women as second class citizens for 1,000's of years.
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KremaP: Don't hold your breath...
It's their culture and I bet yours isn't their goal...
Just read about the Pakistany airline whose airplane crashed recently performing a goat sacrifice to break the bad luck... And aviation engineers and pilots are educated people, I think...
It's their culture and I bet yours isn't their goal...
Just read about the Pakistany airline whose airplane crashed recently performing a goat sacrifice to break the bad luck... And aviation engineers and pilots are educated people, I think...
Did they sacrifice the goat on the airplane?
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Lookin4missright: Did they sacrifice the goat on the airplane?
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Aragorn11: Hi Krema,
nope I won't be, will take a long time, but we can hope.
As I said, not long ago Western cultures treated women as second class citizens for 1,000's of years.
nope I won't be, will take a long time, but we can hope.
As I said, not long ago Western cultures treated women as second class citizens for 1,000's of years.
I do understand your hopes Argy,
but to change you need to want the change. You need to see what you do as a mistake, something that isn't present in certain cultures.
What you see as right and normal isn't right and normal for them...
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Didn't think it was anything deliberate Krema
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KremaP: Well, sorry, the sentance as I see now was too long to follow the right order of events...
My mistake...
My mistake...
sentence ...
Time for me to sleep, I guess...
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"We are investigating the case. We suspect that she died of suffocation from the smoke of a fire she lit to keep herself warm," local district inspector Badri Prasad Dhakal told the AFP news agency on Monday.
Local media identified the girl as Roshani Tiruwa.
Some Hindus view menstruating women as impure and in parts of Nepal they are forced to remain in a hut or cowshed for days, a practice known as chhaupadi.
Truwa's father told Nepalese newspaper My Republica that she had had an evening meal at around 6pm on Friday and went inside the shed to sleep.
When it was late in the morning and she had not been seen, he gave her a call from outside.
"Then we saw her dead body," he said.
According to the newspaper, Truwa was a ninth grader at Rastara Bhasah Secondary School and was undergoing the third day of menstruation at the time of her death.
Under the chhaupadi practice, women are banned from taking part in normal family activities during menstruation and after childbirth, and can have no contact with men of the household.
The Hindu tradition is common to all castes in the region. Women who violate the practice are blamed for crop failures, illnesses and sudden deaths of animals.
There are previous reports of chhaupadi leading to deaths, attacks by wild animals, snakebites, diseases, rapes, poor mental health, and infants dying of pneumonia.
In recent years, some women have turned their back on the ritual: a few burnt their sheds, and some villages are known as "chhaupadi-free zones".
But although the country's Supreme Court banned practising chhaupadi in 2005, the custom dies hard. It remains firmly rooted in many villages, especially in remote hill areas.
Mohna Ansari of Nepal's National Human Rights Commission said local leaders must do more to enforce the ban.
"We have a legal ban but the law enforcement forces have not been strong about implementing it," she said.
"It is crucial for us to work to change the attitudes of the people and raise awareness against this practice.
A 2011 UN report estimated that 95 percent of women in Achham district follow it.
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies
Women's Rights Nepal Human Rights Asia