{"id":57466,"date":"2023-08-11T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/aug\/11\/teenage-girl-dies-after-being-forced-to-stay-in-a-period-hut-in-nepal"},"modified":"2023-08-11T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T06:00:29","slug":"teenage-girl-dies-after-being-forced-to-stay-in-a-period-hut-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57466","title":{"rendered":"Teenage girl dies after being forced to stay in a \u2018period hut\u2019 in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say efforts to stamp out custom of banishing girls and women during menstruation have been set back by Covid<\/p>\n<p>A 16-year-old girl from Nepal has died as a result of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2017\/mar\/23\/poulomi-basu-a-ritual-of-exile-photography\">illegal practice of <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2017\/mar\/23\/poulomi-basu-a-ritual-of-exile-photography\">chhaupadi<\/a>, <\/em>where menstruating women are forced to stay in huts outside their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Anita Chand, from Baitadi district, in the west of the country, bordering India, is understood to have died on Wednesday from a snake bite while she was sleeping. Her death is the first reported fatality from <em>chhaupadi<\/em> since 2019 and campaigners fear progress to eliminate the practice is being eroded.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/aug\/11\/teenage-girl-dies-after-being-forced-to-stay-in-a-period-hut-in-nepal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say efforts to stamp out custom of banishing girls and women during menstruation have been set back by CovidA 16-year-old girl from Nepal has died as a result of the illegal practice of chhaupadi, where menstruating women are forced to stay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,346,984,241,79,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-health","category-menstruation","category-nepal","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57467,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57466\/revisions\/57467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}