menstruation

Safe Menstrual Practices Important for Progress

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage
As menstruation continues to be shamed in many communities, one organisation is rising up to the challenge to ensure “safe menstruation for all women of Bangladesh.”

Break the Menstrual Taboo

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage
It is time to rise up and fight a long neglected taboo: menstruation. Marking International Women’s Day, United Nations human rights experts called on the international community to break taboos around menstruation, noting its impacts on women and girls’ human rights.

Menstrual Hygiene Project Keeps Girls in School

By Mahfuzur Rahman
Breaking taboos surrounding menstruation, a project to distribute sanitary napkins to girls in one district of Bangladesh has had a positive impact on school dropout rates – and should be replicated in other parts of the country, experts say.

Wrong Time of the Month: a Rights Gap for Developing Countries’ Girls

By Gina Din and Siddharth Chatterjee
The onset of menstruation is a landmark event in the life of a young woman. Yet many complications and challenges accompany such an event. One in 10 adolescent girls miss school and eventually drop out due to menstruation-related issues.


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