Around The World
This is a space to create awareness and to educate people about issues that violate the rights of women and girls around the world. We publish articles and posts on social and cultural issues related to gender discrimination, gender-based violence, and systemic oppression against women. We are here to extend our support and guidance to you to be a change-maker in the society.
US Abortion Rights: Eureka! Comprehensive Action
After the initial inertia from the US Federal Government, in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade; the legal precedent that safeguarded bodily autonomy across the US; the Biden Administration initiated a range of steps in combating the pro-life movement’s continual push for an archaic land, void of reproductive rights. Also read: A Leap Backwards in…
The one Erdoğan Fears: the Kurdish and Feminist Journalist Öznur Değer
In front of me, a 23-year-old woman. With unflappable conviction, she proudly claims her Kurdish nationality and fervently defends her rights, her language, her culture, her origins in short. This woman is Öznur Değer, a Kurdish and feminist journalist working for the newspaper JinNews. She embodies everything Erdoğan and his government fear and despise the most. And…
Myths and Facts About Menstruation
Menstruation taboos and stigma, which restrict girls and women from leading a normal life or participating in family and school, are severely debilitating and oppressive for women. Stigma combined with lack of access to sanitary products and proper knowledge on managing periods put girls and women at a disadvantage and are contraindicative to achieving gender equality.…
Paid period leaves, lower tampon taxes and free sanitary products: progress on women’s needs around the world
Although positive developments have been made, commitments both from governments and the private sector around the world are necessary to stop considering topics such as menstruations as taboos. Paid period leaves, different taxes on tampons in every country, and a list of places where governments provide free menstrual products, let’s dive into this! Paid period…
November 25th: Turkish Women’s Blood Flows, Resistance Spreads
On this International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, a taste of struggle and a taste of equality is imprinted on every screaming lip! We are in Kizilay, in the hyper center of Ankara, Turkey. Women of all ages are singing to the rhythm of the violations of their rights. They screech in the…
Menstruation Stigma And Mental Health- A Silent Connection
Menstruation Let us start by defining Menstruation as the periodic discharge of blood and tissue from the uterus, from puberty until menopause. It is a necessary biological function experienced by half of the population. It is similar to other biological functions such as sleeping, breathing, urinating and so on. Menstruation: Stigma And Taboos Despite roughly…
COVID-19 and Period Poverty in Vihiga County
Since the Coronavirus pandemic hit the world in 2019, all aspects of life as we knew changed for the worst. Prices of almost everything went up. Most pinching has been the price of basic needs like food, shelter, clothing, education, health and menstrual hygiene management supplies. I know it comes as a shock to many,…
Menstruation Equity: We Can Do Better
The term ‘Menstrual Equity’ is used to describe menstruation as a driver of social and economic inequality resulting from staggering menstruation poverty, taboos, and stigma associated with menstruation. Period Poverty and Stigma: Hundreds of millions of girls and women across the world do not have access to hygienic sanitary products, clean and private toilets or clean…
The future of Afghan women after the Taliban
Though the Taliban have publicly announced that women will still have rights, however, they did not clarify what rights mean in their context. Life for women living even in a western and developed country like the UK is not always easy just because they are women. This is not to say men don’t face…
The United Kingdom’s Decision to Cut Foreign Aid is having Catastrophic Effects on Women’s Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health.
The continued cut to foreign aid from the UK government has proved to be catastrophic for many countries in crisis and the NGOs providing support to them. Yemen, often considered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, has had international aid from the UK violently cut by more than 60%. This has pushed more than 100 UK Charities…
