FILE – In this Sept. 10, 2013 file photo, Nepalese Hindu women bathe in the Bagmati River on Rishi Panchami, a day when rituals are performed to wash away sins committed during menstruation period, a period considered impure, in Katmandu, Nepal. Nepal’s parliament has passed a bill that goes into effect in August 2018 toward making women safer by strengthening laws against acid attacks along with the ancient Hindu customs of demanding dowry payments for marriage and exiling women who are menstruating. Many menstruating women are still forced to leave their homes and take shelter in unhygienic or insecure huts or cow sheds until their cycle ends, though the practice, called Chhaupadi, was actually outlawed a decade ago. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)