"The stigmatization, incorrect representations and a taboo connected with periods still lead the sociocultural norms violating women's rights to discrimination of women and girls", – it is said in the statement of experts.
According to human rights activists, a number of women's rights and girls, including the rights to health, education, work, freedom of worship and religions and also the right for participation in cultural and public life is as a result violated.
"In many countries of the woman and girl during periods are considered as "dirty" and "soiled", and in this regard there is a number of restrictions: for example, forbid to touch with it water or to prepare, to attend certain religious ceremonies or places of departure of a cult, or to participate in public actions, – human rights activists say. – The menstruating girls sometimes even force to live outdoors, in the shed, on cold where they can get sick or wildings can attack them".
Many women and girls also have no opportunity to acquire personal care products or to use them. In some regions of the girl during periods women – for work do not even go to school, and.
"Though in some countries the discrimination connected with periods was prohibited at the legislative level, and the measures designed to provide the menstruating girls and women to all necessary in many parts of the world still were developed ignore disturbances of their rights", – it is said in the statement of experts.
Human rights activists also urged to increase literacy of the population in the field of reproductive health and about related physiological processes and to break down the stereotypes, myths and a taboo surrounding this subject.
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