December 24.
One afternoon a few weeks ago, Jivan Bhattarai, a counsellor at Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) Nepal, got a phone call. At the other end of the line was a distressed woman seeking a way out of an abusive relationship with her husband. The woman, in her late 30s, is from an affluent family in Kathmandu and has been married for several years now. Since the start of her marriage, she has been a victim of domestic abuse at home, she told Bhattarai.
