Period Poverty
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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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Long Reads
Why the government’s pledge to end period poverty is so vitally important
“Together we have secured a change that a few years ago seemed inconceivable: a solution to period poverty”
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- Laura Coryton
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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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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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- Sarah Biddlecombe
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Teens in Nepal document the stigma surrounding periods
“We are kept separately and not touched. I feel hated.”
Life
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
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- Natasha Preskey
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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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Life
The comedy night fighting period poverty one laugh at a time
It's going to be bloody funny
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- Megan Murray
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Life
How to easily donate unused items to charity, from lipsticks to dresses
Got a house full of good-quality clutter? Here’s how to find it a new home
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- Moya Lothian-McLean
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Long Reads
Alesha Dixon has a simple, yet powerful, solution to period poverty
137,000 girls in the UK are regularly missing school because they can’t afford sanitary protection. That needs to change
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- Alesha Dixon
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Visible Women
From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Danielle Rowley: the women making waves this week
Take note.
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- Susan Devaney
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- Megan Murray
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Female MP makes ground-breaking move by discussing her period in parliament
Scottish Labour's Danielle Rowley got real about period poverty in a revolutionary way
Life
This London restaurant will let you swap tampons for cocktails
Show your support for period poverty by getting sozzled
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- Megan Murray
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Happy Place
Finally, there's some good news about the tampon tax
Don't get too excited - it's not still not been abolished
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- Megan Murray
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Life
When will the tampon tax finally be abolished?
When you can expect to see the back of this ridiculous tax
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- Megan Murray
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Beauty
7 great ways to help make hygiene poverty a thing of the past
Supporting these initiatives means less women will face hygiene poverty in the UK
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- Ava Welsing-Kitcher
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Visible Women
Meet the woman tackling period poverty for asylum seekers
Stylist’s Woman of the Week is activist Gabby Edlin, the founder of Bloody Good Period.
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- Georgia Green
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Visible Women
Women’s Daily Dispatch: the news you need to know on 5/2/18
Scottish women grapple with period poverty, rare suffragette posters are unveiled, and more
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- Moya Crockett
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- Susan Devaney
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The tampon has been given a major upgrade for 2018
Wave goodbye to unwanted leakage
Life
The unique way this Scottish company is fighting period poverty in the UK
“Buy one, give one.”
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- Susan Devaney
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