Widows in Nepal are protesting against a decision by the Nepalese government to offer a cash incentive to men for marrying them.
The incentive was announced in the government's annual budget earlier this week - it is a lump sum of 50,000 Nepali rupees ($641).
Nepal has a large number of widows because of the bloody conflict there in recent years as well as the high rates of HIV and other diseases found in the country. More...
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