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Homemade sanitary pads promoted to empower women
Taipei :: Taiwan | 2 days ago
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Taipei, May 18 (CNA) A grassroots organization said Saturday that it has launched a nationwide campaign to promote handmade sanitary napkins that it believes will empower women to better deal with menstruation in a more personalized way.
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No period please: Many women skip menstruating
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | 13 days ago
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Published May 07, 2013 LiveScience Seemingly restrictive religious traditions that regard menstruating women as "unclean" may paradoxically build strong bonds between women, new research finds. This sense of community, most famously depicted in the
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Business Casual: Why women should read my column
Torrance :: CA :: USA | 17 days ago
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With this in mind, I've decided to reach out to an under-represented demographic of my readership: women. At the risk of shedding a few of my male readers, I am dedicating today's column to women...Five years later, her husband still doesn't like to
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Nepalese menstruation tradition dies hard
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 20 days ago
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Special to The Globe and Mail Last updated Tuesday, Apr. 30 2013, 8:08 PM EDT Sharmila Bhul was 15 when she died alone and isolated in an unventilated and windowless room measuring just 1x11/2 metres. Like tens of thousands of girls and women across
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Volunteers wanted to help sew feminine hygiene kits for girls, women at Lynden event
Lynden :: WA :: USA | 2 months ago
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People are invited to a sewing event on Saturday, March 9, hosted by Days for Girls International...Road in Lynden, is part of a celebration of International Women's Day. Lynden-based Days for Girls International provides feminine hygiene kits to
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A caring enterprise for and by women
Bangalore :: India | 2 months ago
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March 8, 2013 The Hindu The initiative by students and faculty of the entrepreneurship cell of Mount Carmel College has made sanitary pads affordable for all...Murali Kumar Liberation can mean different things to different women. For a considerably
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Menstruation a forgotten development issue
Mumbai :: India | 2 months ago
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AID agencies and governments must tackle the taboos surrounding menstruation as sidelining the issue undermines the quality of life of women and girls, chiefly in poor nations, a UN body says. Poor education about menstruation, lack of access to
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Out of the sheds: Women fight segregation in rural Nepal
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 3 months ago
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Women fight segregation in rural Nepal For generations, the custom of chaupadi forced menstruating women to sleep outside of their homes in small sheds or in the family stable. By Allyn Gaestel, Contributor / March 2, 2013 Sanfebagar, Nepal In this
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Why is it the ?dirty? word?
Mumbai :: India | 3 months ago
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Madhavidai' thoughtfully essays the uneasy attitudes toward menstruation that are still prevalent in our culture A woman bleeds every month, it's her own blood...Let us understand the uterus -- the organ which nurtures lives, creates a child from a
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Can you centre a film festival on menstruation? The founders of Crankytown.ca are trying
New York City :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
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Story Balaban and Matsui are two of the three founders of Crankytown.ca (the other is Montreal art director/costumer/actress/puppeteer Jenna Wright), a website/virtual village started in late 2010 to sensitively and intelligently demystify
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