Tag Archives: Children

Tending someone else’s garden

Perhaps the target of this is wrong: making big cultural changes (with its links to virginity/purity) is difficult, but giving families clear benefits in continuing their new daughter-in-law’s education, is much easier. A real prominent issue in school-drop out rates. … Continue reading

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CNN heroes reborn, this time: prisons

CNN heroes is building up again. Remember last year when Demi Moore – of course never a celebrity to promote the sexualisation of women herself – parachuted into a 5* hotel in Nepal for two days to tell the American … Continue reading

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IRIN: Emerging from menstrual quarantine

Every month, for one week,14-year-old Kamala Vishwarkarmas returns from school to sleep alone in a dark, windowless mud hut. She is forbidden from entering her family’s house during her menstrual cycle for fear of what might happen. “I’ll stay here … Continue reading

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