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Introduction
Survival on the Land
Status of Women
Violence/Sexual Exploitation
Health
Caste
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INTRODUCTION
Nepal's rural Dalit women are among the most disadvantaged
of the world's poor. They suffer both as women and as Dalits in one of
the poorest countries on the globe. Nepal is 199th among 210 national
economies. 42% of the general population lives below the nutrition-based
poverty line.
Dalits and especially Dalit women fare worse than the general
population in every way. The 2.5 million Dalit women of Nepal are at the
very bottom of the hierarchy of class, caste, and gender.
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