Women lawmakers lobby for harsher penalties for rape

As cases of sexual violence have continued to go up despite increased jail term, women lawmakers want rapists to be chemically castrated.

Every night Shanta Chaudhary, Nepal Communist Party whip, prays that there are no news on rape in the next morning’s papers. She says the increasing cases of rape and sexual assaults have haunted her so much that she fears that her relatives may fall victims of the gruesome crime.