#ForcedMarriages

2024-11-07

#PeriodPoverty undermines the education of #girls and young #women bit.ly/3YZGOY9
Girls and young women around the world are missing school days, because they lack the resources to adequately manage their #MenstrualHealth and hygiene.
Period poverty also has dangerous & immediate health consequences for girls & young women, pushing them into early and #ForcedMarriages, #SexualAbuse, or female genital mutilation #FGM – because their period is seen as their “coming of age.”

photo of Payal Patel and other girls and women smiling and holding up period pads
2024-11-07

#PeriodPoverty undermines the education of #girls and young #women bit.ly/3YZGOY9
Girls and young women around the world are missing school days, because they lack the resources to adequately manage their #MenstrualHealth and hygiene.
Period poverty also has dangerous & immediate health consequences for girls & young women, pushing them into early and #ForcedMarriages, #SexualAbuse, or female genital mutilation #FGM – because their period is seen as their “coming of age.”

photo of Payal Patel and other girls and women smiling and holding up period pads
PeterD 🇩🇪 🇨🇦peterdeppisch@mstdn.ca
2023-04-01

@VENANDA

50 million people worldwide in modern slavery
ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/n
"Latest estimates show that forced labour and forced marriage have increased significantly in the last five years, according to the International Labour Organization, Walk Free and the International Organization for Migration."
#slavery #ForcedLabour #ForcedMarriages

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