In Nepal, Exiled Each Month by Poh Si Teng, Allison Shelley and Allyn Gaestel.
In Nepal, Exiled Each Month featured on the homepage of The New York Times, June 12, 2013.
In far western Nepal, many believe that women who are menstruating are impure and bring bad luck. And so they are exiled each month, leaving them vulnerable to rape and other horrors.