Menstrual Products Must Be Available in School Restrooms. Period.
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When I see that toilet paper, hand soap, and paper towels are available and provided to students free of cost, I wonder why menstrual products aren’t, too.
Teen Voices
Taking the Stigma Out of Menstruation in Uganda One Girl at a Time
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Learning about how her body works helped this Ugandan student feel emboldened.
Women's Health
U.S. Congresswomen Push for Menstruation with Dignity for Women, Girls
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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.
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World Bankers: Please Study Menstruation Costs
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At the spring meeting I hope World Bankers will decide to study the toll it takes when girls and women have no handy bathrooms to change napkins and tampons. We need this data to push nations and communities to improve the supply of water and toilets in workplaces.
Teen Voices
In Nepal, Menstruation Can Mean Days in Isolation
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The restrictive, isolating practice of chhaupadi, outlawed 10 years ago, is still a way of life for some girls and women in Nepal. “I am not allowed to enter the kitchen or touch any material from it,” says a 17-year-old.
Education
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Menstrual Hygiene Day Links Periods and Human Rights
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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.