The India Fellow Program seeks young people (between the age of 21-28 years) with diverse career interests to understand the development challenges. The Program will span over 13 months through the hands-on work, training…
Vital Voices calls forward women community leaders with an aim to increase the capacity, decision-making power and effectiveness of women leaders in public life. The fellowship provides year-long technical training on skills…
Strategic Advocacy for Human Rights (SAHR) is offering a 6-month long paid opportunity for aspiring female human rights activists and lawyers to take on gender violence. This Fellowship supports work on a specific case of…
One Future Collective (NGO) is offering a 3-month long fellowship for any applicant between 16-30 years of age. Individuals will benefit from curated personal leadership experiences for larger scale societal transformation…
My first menstrual experience was an interesting one. Growing up as a child, I never had the opportunity of knowing what menstruation was about. No one actually seemed to talk about it. It almost seemed like a taboo. The…
Menstruation and menstrual blood symbolize unfortunate in my community.Menstruating girls and women are taken as untouchable and impure people. Menstruation is still a taboo and a social misconception. This normal…
Parlons de l'hygiène de la femme et ses règles menstruelles. Moi, je les aie eu à l"âge de 9 ans s'était vraiment étrange voir même le traumatisme et cela a permis le développement de mon organisme avec le développement de…
In March 2019 the Airports Council International (ACI) released the first “Combatting Human Trafficking Handbook”, a free resource designed to help airports comprehensively deal with modern slavery. Using these guidelines…
I was really really young. Just finishing 4th grade and going into the 5th. I had no idea of a concept like this until I got it. I didn't know a word called menstruation existed. My mom wanted to wait until she could have…
There is so much behind menstruation in my society that needs to be handled with care. From my secondary school days till date I have witnessed women (both young and old) who soil themselves with menses. I understand that…
La menstruation demeurant encore un sujet tabou dans nos sociétés, il est capital de pouvoir démystifier cette croyance selon laquelle le flux menstruel est quelque chose d’impur, ce qui fait que le monde féminin est en…
My First Girl Child I conceived right after getting married. It was totally unplanned pregnancy but I tried to make it completely organised. I was not so happy but I was so much conscious for this big change in my life. I…
My First Girl Child I conceived right after getting married. It was totally unplanned pregnancy but I tried to make it completely organised. I was not so happy but I was so much conscious for this big change in my life. I…
The world over, International Menstrual Hygiene Day is being celebrated to bring attention to this aspect of women and girls' health and empowerment. Breaking the Silence Worldwide Foundation since 2014 has been working from…
I still remember my first day of menstruation. I am from Nepal and menstruation is taken as impurity till today. I am sharing my story which is from 24 years back. So, you all can imagine how the situation was at that time.…
Hi In India religion is attached to all aspects, and off course periods are not left unattached. We grew up being told that u cannot touch anywhere I mean kitchen, prayer house etc. I often wondered why something giving by…
I stepped on the Yoga mat to heal myself. And the rest is history. From a curious practitioner to silently brewing the dream to teach; the journey has not only seen blood, sweat and bruises but it has witnessed a path of…
Laziness is something that everyone detests. Personally I don’t like living or working with lazy people. But laziness made me find my passion. I used to be very hardworking in class and very serious with my books until I…
As a woman, our menstrual cycle is in so many ways an internal compass. Yet instead of teaching women about tuning into our own internal barometers, we have sent messages that our internal cycle is not important and can be…
Last week I, Trine Angeline Sig joined Miss Roisa Kerry and Miss Umulkheir H Mohamed to talk about menstruation at KTN News Kenya. Please find the time do watch, learn and support this very important agenda - as we call for…
As i am from far western region of Nepal that has already its own way of discrimination towards girl since her birth.When i had my first period i was around 12-13 years old had no idea what is happening ? All of sudden i…
Hello every one ... In our communities abit there are keept like this topics , we called it girls'things Ther is distance between men and them so i guess this is the big matter , i guess this make increase the distance . I…
Hello every one ... About this question , the answer is very simpoly . Just men and boy first of all respect women. And give them space to live their life by get their aim and desires and never kill their dreams . Equality…
At 92, Dr V. Shanta runs one of the biggest and busiest cancer hospitals in India with the same passion and enthusiasm as she did when she had started out nearly 60 years ago. Every morning, the ever smiling doc goes on…
Co-Authored with Suparna Gupta , Aangan Trust . Truths are tumbling out of all sorts of offices and organisations across the country through India’s #MeToo movement, a definite glimmer of hope that women will be heard. As…
