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Today at Ms. | October 11, 2022 |
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Attendees of a Copper Rose Zambia outreach session on reproductive healthcare in July. The organization offers menstruation education, as well as training and product distribution programs to normalize and increase awareness of menstrual health management. (Instagram) |
BY OLGA LASKIN | The world commemorates the 10th annual International Day of the Girl on Oct. 11, a day recognizing the unique challenges girls face. Millions of girls struggle to participate in school at least once a month due to the lack of acceptable menstrual health products or facilities. “Lack of access to menstrual health information, supplies and support are barriers that stand in the way of advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender equality and the full autonomy and sustained achievement of girls and women,” said Rahwa Weldemichael, Ph.D., associate director and gender justice specialist at PAI.
We see examples of this in the work of feminists around the world—like Copper Rose Zambia, a leading youth-focused, girls’ empowerment organization in Zambia. They offer menstruation education, training and product distribution programs with youth to normalize and increase awareness of menstrual health management. (Click here to read more) |
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A young girl at the Sacred Heart School in Banket, Zimbabwe, on Nov. 10, 2016. (Christian Ender / Getty Images) |
BY SUSAN M. BLAUSTEIN | The nearly-two decades prior to the pandemic saw 82 million more girls in school, girls’ primary school enrollment up 65 percent, and a 25-percent increase in parity between girls and boys completing primary school. Among the pandemic’s worst legacies has been its ravaging blow to these decades of progress, with 20 million additional secondary school-age girls who may never return to school.
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BY EMERALD GARNER | An excerpt from Finding My Voice: On Grieving My Father, Eric Garner, and Pushing for Justice by Emerald Garner, Monet Dunham and Etan Thomas:
“While you haven’t even fully grieved, you’re now linked to other cases, and you only have the bond that your loved one was also murdered by the police. … We didn’t choose for my father to be murdered, but we were left to pick up the pieces after, and that just wasn’t fair.”
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