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Menstruation, Marriage, and Money: How Nepali Girls Fall into the Quicksand of Sex Trafficking
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A lecture by independent journalist, Danielle Preiss
When: November 5, 2015
Where: FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1005
Danielle Preiss is an independent journalist who has been working in and on Nepal for most of the last decade with organizations including The Kathmandu Post, the Mountain Institute, and Her Turn (a nonprofit focused on girls' and women's health, education, and empowerment). Her reports have appeared in media outlets including The Atlantic, The Guardian, Vice.com, Himal Southasian, and WXXI News. Her lecture will focus on sex trafficking and girls' lives and rights in Nepal.
The talk will be followed by a reception with tasty food and the opportunity to discuss the current situation in Nepal six months after the Great Earthquake with the speaker and Professor Lauren Leve from the Department of Religious Studies.
Sponsored by The Carolina Asia Center, the Center for Global Initiatives, the Nepal Student Interest Group, the South Asia Faculty Working Group, and the UNC-CH Program in Sexuality Studies
FedEx Global Education Center
301 Pittsboro Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27514 United States + Google Map