Badaun girls’ village has toilets that women can’t use

Young Lakshmi is filled with fear every time she has to step out of home and go the fields 200 metres away to relieve herself in the night. The 19-year-old lives in a small Uttar Pradesh village in Badaun district only a few houses away from where two young girls were allegedly abducted, gang-raped and murdered in May. The two teen cousins had stepped out to go the fields at night. They were reported missing soon after, and were found hanging the next morning from a tree.

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