In Nepal, fight against obstetric fistula marches on - 23 May 2014

DHARAN, Nepal – Dhani Devi Mukhiya remembers the days when her relatives shunned her in public and her husband threatened to bring home another wife. For some of the villagers in her community in Nepal, the obstetric fistula that she lived with for seven years was ‘punishment for a sin’ she had committed in her ‘previous life’.
Source: UNFPA News - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news