#PledgeAPeriod: Meet Azmati, Hailing From a Mumbai Slum, Who Now Spreads...
Menstruation is a normal and a healthy part of life and yet girls and women in India go through extreme struggles to manage their periods every month. A large chunk of the Indian population believes...
View Article“मुझे मकान मालिकों ने मेरी जाति के आधार पर कमरा देने से मना कर दिया”
भारत की अधिकांश आबादी गाँवों में रहती है और वहां आज भी लोगों को शिक्षित होने, आत्मनिर्भर बनने एवं बौद्धिक जागरूकता लाने की ज़रूरत है। इसकी कमी के कारण ही गाँव के लोग अभी भी अपेक्षाकृत अधिक धर्मभीरू हैं...
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दुनिया तकलीफों की तंग गलियों में फंसी हुई है, दर्द हर जगह देखा जा सकता है। जिस ओर देखो दर्द और तकलीफ होती है। इसका मूल आधार है कहीं गरीबी तो कहीं घरेलू हिंसा, कहीं बलात्कार तो कहीं अपराध की आंधी। मैं...
View Articleकैसे कोविड-19 छीन रहा है आदिवासियों से उनके रोज़गार के साधन
तेंदूपत्ता (Diospyros Melanoxylon) आदिवासियों के जीवन का अहम भाग है। कई राज्यों के आदिवासी इन पत्तों को तोड़कर बेचते हैं और अपना जीवन-यापन करते हैं। छत्तीसगढ़ के लगभग पूरे ग्रामीण क्षेत्र में...
View ArticleEnvironment-Friendly Menstrual Products? Sign Me Up!
Access to menstrual products is a problem which keeps cropping up in India. A survey on menstrual hygiene management revealed that as many as 71% of the respondents use sanitary napkins during their...
View ArticleI Had Period Sex And I Liked It
A still from Parched (no pun intended). Sex is always fun for me. Periods are always an inconvenience for me. So why in the world would I bring these two oddballs together? Let’s go back to 2014 when I...
View ArticleBleed Eco: Towards Hygienic Menstruation In Educational Institutions Across...
The Bleed Eco Project is a campaign that has been launched, in association with the Youth Ki Awaaz Action Network on Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM). Here, we aim at spreading awareness about...
View ArticleEven Without A Menstrual Leave Policy, These Initiatives Are Supporting MHM...
It is common parlance that India needs a menstrual policy. While it is necessary to have a nationwide policy that can bring the agenda of menstrual hygiene management to the forefront, that is not the...
View ArticleSex Work And The Glaring Economics Of Unemployment During Periods
There is a lack of knowledge and understanding when it comes to seeing how menstrual hygiene management differs for sex workers who have to even work during their periods. Most engage in sex work...
View ArticleMenstrual Hygiene: Are We Still On the Mark In Rural India?
Urban India is celebrating forward-looking policies initiated by few emerging Indian Startups to provide paid leaves to its female employees. Surely, such steps reflect a positive outlook of the...
View ArticleWhat Role Do Anganwadi And Asha Workers Play In Ensuring Menstrual Health?
In India, the discussion around menstrual hygiene is either ignored or holds very little importance. Even after taking various steps to ensure menstrual health management through grassroots health...
View Articleकैसे स्कूलों में सुविधाओं की कमी लड़कियों को शिक्षा से दूर कर रहा है
भारत में हिंसा के सबसे अधिक मामले महिलाओं से ही जुड़े होते हैं, जिनका रूप कुछ भी हो सकता है। हालांकि पुरुष प्रधान देश में हमेशा महिलाओं को देवी का दर्ज़ा दिया जाता रहा है लेकिन सिक्के का दूसरा पहलू यह...
View ArticleMenstrual Justice Stands To Trial In The Court Of Classism And Casteism
Menstrual justice, a term first used by Margaret E. Johnson in her paper, dealt extensively with a menstrual injustice that occurs in various forms in the United States of America. However, Menstrual...
View ArticleWhat Will It Take To Prioritise Climate Change?
By Moutushi Sengupta India ranks third in terms of absolute levels of carbon emissions after China and the United States. In a business as usual scenario, by 2030, emission levels are predicted to...
View Article“Women Are Caregivers”: Here’s How Society Keeps Them Away From STEM Careers
As of 2020, India has managed to overcome quite a few gender barriers when it comes to education up to class 12. However, the story of what happens after that is not very different today from what it...
View ArticleSHGs Help Women Avail Loans, But Fail To Combat Menstrual Health Issues
Self-help groups are a small group of women or men with around 10-12 members. These groups are mainly formed in rural areas to provide women with financial inclusion and literacy. In addition, it is...
View ArticleAre Menstrual Leaves As Accessible To Daily Wage Earners As To Salaried Women?
As woman, I know that many women go through a painful experience during their periods. The worst is on the first two days of the period. The fatigue, tiredness, uneasiness and pain a woman faces during...
View ArticleHow One Single Toilet Can Change The Period Reality Of Women In Rural India
With the changing time, the landscape of rural India is also witnessing a significant change. Villages occupy 66% population in India today. The density of the population has increased and forests have...
View ArticlePeriod And Profit: Let’s Smash Menstrual Capitalism, Shall We?
There is an existing culture of shame when it comes to menstruation. Women are asked to keep their periods a secret, they are not educated about their own menstruation cycles which further perpetuates...
View ArticleHere’s How Patriarchy Ensures A Girl Stays Out Of School
In countries like India, gender inequality and discrimination are rooted in the culture. Family as a social institution plays an influential role in moulding the thought process of a child....
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