Call for shift to sustainable menstruation practices

The archaeology of menstruation

The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘accelerate action’ and emphasises the importance of taking decisive steps to achieve gender equality. It calls for increased momentum and urgency in addressing the systemic barriers and biases that women face, both in personal and professional spheres. With this in mind, two of our staff, Isobel Johnson-Moss, an Archaeological Assistant who works in both the field and in archiving, and Dr Ra…

Call for shift to sustainable menstruation practices

RESHMI YADAV,OP Bhubaneswar: With India generating an estimated 113,000 tons of menstrual waste annually from 12.3 billion discarded disposable pads, experts and advocates on ‘International Women’s Day’ called for a shift to sustainable menstruation practices in the country. This is in the backdrop of findings that most of these pads contain up to 90 per cent plastic which will take 500 to 800 years to decompose, and often end up in landfills, w…

Marcela Loyola The Organization for Girls (OPC), presented before the State Congress, the Citizens' Initiative “To Menstruate with Dignity must be Educated” and that replaces the previous initiative of Law “My Rule My Right” already presented earlier. #SLP The Organization for Girls (OPC), presented before the State Congress, the Citizen's Initiative “To Menstruate with Dignity must be Educated” and that replaces the previous initiative of Law “…