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KATHMANDU, NEPAL – “What had my little son and myself done that my husband brought home a second wife?” asks a frail-looking Janaki Adhikari.
Her eyes well up with tears.
“Yes, I then divorced him and raised my son on my own,” she says. “He is now 15 years old.”
NAIROBI, KENYA – Jane Akinyi, 32, locks her small shack in Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum, and swiftly makes her way through the narrow streets to join a file of women walking to South C, a middle-class suburb located in the south of the city, where they do housework.
It is a chilly morning, typical of the July weather here. But Akinyi says that after making the same journey every day for eight years, she is used to the cold.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL -- Nirmala Godar lives in a small village called Lele on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital city. Her life is filled with verbal harassment, violent attacks and social deprivation. In this tiny Himalayan country where human rights activists continue to struggle for women rights, empowerment and political inclusion, Godar says she has no rights, no opportunities for empowerment and no political representation.
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR – Sameer Ahmad, 14, sits and longingly stares toward the gate. He is still waiting for someone to come and take him home.
Ahmad was put into the Yateem Foundation, one Kashmir’s 17 orphanages, after his father passed away in 1994 and his mother remarried a few years later.