Period Poverty
Period Poverty, breaking news, photos, comments, social media posts on this topic.
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Life
Lockdown is seriously impacting period poverty – here’s how you can help
Demand for period products is on the rise.
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- Hollie Richardson
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Life
4 things I’ve learned fighting to end period poverty
And why it’s more important than ever...
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- The Body Shop
Life
5 things you can do to help combat period poverty during this pandemic
Because periods don’t stop in a crisis
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- The Body Shop
Life
4 activists on why we need to change the period narrative
Because everyone needs access to products, particularly in a pandemic
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- The Body Shop
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- Hollie Richardson
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Panic-buying tampons will only make them less accessible to women who need them
Coronavirus stockpiling has resulted in a shortage of tampons on some supermarket shelves. Here’s why it needs to stop.
Beauty
Boots is partnering with The Hygiene Bank to help tackle hygiene poverty in the UK
Brilliant news from the high street retailer.
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- Lucy Partington
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Long Reads
This is how you can help end tampon tax, once and for all
Now that we’ve left the EU, it’s time to crack on with one of the government’s most important pledges – ending tampon tax.
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- Laura Coryton
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Life
People are claiming that period poverty “isn’t real” – and we’re having none of it
Women are sharing their own very real experiences online.
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- Hollie Richardson
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Life
Period products will now be free in English state schools
Free tampons in schools at last!
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- Harriet Marsden
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Life
60% of women need to “budget” for their periods, and how is this 2019?
Our periods cost us £5000.
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- Jessica Rapana
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Beauty
We try the innovative new age period products worth knowing about
Did you know there were two types of menstrual cup?
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- Ava Welsing-Kitcher
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- Hollie Richardson
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A book with 15 free tampons inside it has sold out for this political reason
Tampons are taxed at nearly three times the rate as books are in Germany.
Life
Period poverty in the UK: 1 in 5 young girls are being bullied at school, here’s how you can help
Male classmates are calling them "dirty" and "disgusting"
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- Megan Murray
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Life
Wales just struck a major blow against period poverty in the UK
The Welsh government has announced a scheme addressing period poverty in schools. It’s a reminder that feminist activism can make a difference
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- Moya Crockett
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People
Free Periods’ Amika George on what’s next in the fight against period poverty
Plus, women from Uganda, Myanmar, India and Kenya tells us why period poverty is a global issue.
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- Hannah Keegan
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Opinion
10 things I want you to know about making change happen
From the founder of #FreePeriods
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- philosophy
Life
Why it matters that we’re getting a period emoji
It won’t eliminate stigma on its own – but if it helps start important conversations, then that’s worth celebrating.
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- Moya Crockett
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Life
Teens in Nepal document the stigma surrounding periods
“We are kept separately and not touched. I feel hated.”
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- Sarah Biddlecombe
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- Natasha Preskey
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People need food banks now more than ever – here’s how you can help
Sainsbury’s has launched shelf-edge labels to help shoppers easily identify the products that are most useful to food banks
Life
These are the shocking stats around period poverty in the UK
The issue is much closer to home than you may have thought
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