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U.S. Congresswomen Push for Menstruation with Dignity for Women, Girls

By Amanda Klasing ● Commentary ● June 5, 2017

We don’t hear about the challenges of managing menstruation as much in the U.S., but they do exist. A set of bills introduced this year to the U.S. Congress is trying to improve access to menstrual hygiene products and information.

‘A Day Without a Woman’ Time to Ask the Tough Questions

By Amanda Klasing ● Commentary ● March 8, 2017

As women around the U.S. and world opt out of paid and unpaid work today, we must ask ourselves questions like what are the laws and policies and small forms of gender discrimination that hurt women? Tackling the smallest forms of sexism is the only way to address discrimination in its worst forms.

Menstrual Hygiene Day Links Periods and Human Rights

By Amanda Klasing ● Uncategorized ● May 27, 2014

Handling periods (or “menstrual hygiene management” as experts call it) isn’t the first thing one might associate with human rights. Yet the link between realization of rights for women and girls and menstrual hygiene management could not be clearer.

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