<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My colleague, Frances Coffey, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/2013\/06\/12\/world\/asia\/100000002256498\/in-nepal-exiled-each-month-.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">tweeted this sad story<\/a> about menstruating women in Nepal. \u00a0In western Nepal, people believe these women are impure and bring bad luck. \u00a0According to the authors of the video above, Poh Si Teng, Allison Shelley and Allyn Gaestel, \u00a0they are exiled and \u201cbecome vulnerable to rape and other horrors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe practice, which many believe is rooted in Hinduism, is called chaupadi and calls for \u201cthe monthly separation of women deemed impure during menstruation.\u201d \u00a0 In <a href=\"http:\/\/pulitzercenter.org\/reporting\/nepal-cultural-practice-women-childbirth-maternal-mortality-chaupadi-separation-menstruation-tradition\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a story for the Pulitzer Center on crisis reporting,<\/a> Allyn Gastel writes, \u201ceach month women sleep in a small hut called a goth, in the stable or outside. 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