How A Lack Of Toilets Puts India's Women At Risk Of Assault

A young girl sweeps fallen debris from a tempest that blew through her village of Katra Sahadatganj one recent evening.

This remote spot in Uttar Pradesh — India's largest state — has become the center of another gathering storm.

It was here two weeks ago where two young girls were audaciously attacked: raped and hanged from a tree. Inter-caste violence and patriarchal attitudes combined to make a chilling spectacle in this impoverished place of mud-caked children and hand-pumped water.