The plea also sought to issue directions to the respondents to provide a three-stage awareness programme regarding menstruation.

In China, menstruation taboo has roots in a traditional culture that associates the physiological phenomenon with bad luck and uncleanness.

While the proceedings were pending, the two parties reached a compromise and decided to work toward quashing the FIRs quashed.

The Bihar student who was rebuked by an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer for seeking sanitary pads at an affordable cost will receive a year’s supply of sanitary pads.

Why do we stigmatise periods and menstrual products by wrapping them around newspapers? Are we embarrassed by menstruating women?

In a bid to raise awareness about menstrual hygiene, a milkman from Hanumangarh has distributed over 20,000 packets of sanitary napkins among girls in rural areas of the state and neighbouring states of Haryana and Punjab in 19 months

Pune start-up recycles sanitary pads and processes up to 3,000 pads per day and converts into recyclable cellulose and plastic.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that her government will provide access to free sanitary products for female students in an attempt to fight period poverty in the country

Indian sanitary pad advertisements are misleading. The approach should be promote menstrual health and not hide period stains. And then there are more stereotypes!

According to the government spokesperson, the proposed amendment also incorporated clauses to ensure that the sanitary napkins of adequate quantity.