Nepal set to stop 🚫 isolation of menstruating women

Nepal's parliament, criminalised 🚫 an ancient Hindu practice called chhaupadi that banishes women from the home 🏠 during menstruation and after childbirth.

"A woman during her menstruation or post-natal state should not be kept 🚫 in chhaupadi or treated with any kind of similar discrimination or untouchable and inhuman behaviour," reads the law, passed in an unanimous vote on Wednesday.

The new law 📋, which will come into effect in a year's time, stipulates a three-month jail sentence or a 3,000 rupee fine ($30), or both, for anyone forcing a woman to follow the custom.

UCJ, UNILORIN.