Kathmandu, March 23 -- Despite having the highest rates of deaths related to Chhaupadi, not a single police complaint has been filed in Achham and Dailekh districts, a new human rights report says.

Chhaupadi, the practice of banishing menstruating women and girls from their homes to huts and cowsheds, was criminalised in 2017, but the number of women who've lost their lives in Nepal's mid-western hills continues to rise.

A national enquiry report on Chhaupadi released on Friday by the National Human Rights Commission said that those who were imposing this outlawed practice on women were still not being held accountable, despite legal provisions. Penalties for enforcing Chhaupadi include a Rs 3,000 fine and a three-month jail term, or bo...