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Widows protest marriage incentive | Oddly Enough | Reuters
- KATHMANDU
- About 200 women marched through the Nepali capital Monday to denounce a government scheme to pay cash incentives to men for marrying widows
- Nepal's center-left coalition announced a plan last month to pay men the equivalent of $650 for marrying widows, angering the widows.
- But Neupane said it would only add to their woes as men would marry widows for money and later abandon them. Widows, she said, should instead be given jobs, better health care and education.
- (Reporting by Gopal Sharma; Editing by Bappa Majumdar and Ron Popeski)
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Widows protest marriage incentive | Oddly Enough | Reuters
