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KUNAN POSHPORA, KASHMIR, INDIA – Located in the remote, northern district of Kupwara, Kunan Poshpora looks like any other village in Indian-administered Kashmir. But on Feb. 23, 1991, something happened here that would change this village forever.
That night, residents say that Indian troops laid siege to their village. The army assembled the men at several locations in the town and then entered their homes.
KAMPALA, UGANDA – Samalie Namuyomba, 15, is in her third year at Mengo Senior Secondary School in Kampala, Uganda’s capital.
Despite the fact that she is an educated young woman, she says that people identify her most with another label: an illegitimate child.
“One day, my stepdad had a quarrel with my mother, and I overheard him refer to me as a bastard,” she says, adding that her mother gave birth to her outside of wedlock.
KAMPALA, UGANDA – Tom Kasekende, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, says he grew up in a polygamous home in which his father had several wives.
“I grew up in a polygamous family,” he says. “My father had many wives, some of them I did not even know. I would just hear about them as a child.”
LAGANKHEL, NEPAL – It is midafternoon, and the outpatient department at Nepal’s only mental health facility, called the Mental Hospital, is abuzz with patients. Some wait for their turn to receive care, while others sit on the hospital lawn, crying, talking to themselves or just soaking in the sun.
JHAPA DISTRICT, NEPAL – The clock reads 7 p.m. on a gloomy winter evening. Rajgadh village, located in the Jhapa district in the southeastern corner of Nepal, glows from the dim light of oil lamps. As Shree Tudu, 57, cooks dinner on a clay oven in her “kitchen” – a small straw hut in the middle of a field – a noisy makeshift metal pipe periodically disturbs the calm evening. The fire’s heat keeps the front of her body warm, but her back can’t escape the cold as dew drenches her yellow scarf.
NUWAKOT, NEPAL -- Sapana Balami is wearing a blue frock. Her long hair is tied back with a rubber band. The lanky 14-year-old girl looks pale and worn-out. She says it feels strange to carry a bulky backpack at the same time she carries a child in her belly.