Nepal dowry bill to protect women from abuse

Name: Nepal dowry bill to protect women from abuse
Uploaded: 2014-10-04T06:20:06Z
Duration: 2 min 20 s
Description: Human rights activists say new bill doesn’t go far enough to protect women from dowry-related violence.

Human rights activists say new bill doesn’t go far enough to protect women from dowry-related violence.

02:20

Every year, a number of women in Nepal are killed by their husbands and in-laws over dowry disputes.

Now, a new bill is set to criminalise pyschological and physcial torture related to dowries.

Al Jazeera’s Subina Shrestha reports from Kathmandu.