📢 Join us to demand a Menstrual Act Now!
Our Menstrual Health, Dignity, and Sustainability Act has been backed by 35 experts and organisations. We need your help to demand a Menstrual Act Now!
With 42 per cent of girls in the UK struggling to afford period products, menstrual products generating 28,114 tonnes of waste in the UK per year, and conventional period products containing toxic chemicals and metals, it’s clear women, girls and people who menstruate are being let down when it comes to their periods.
Wen is urgently calling for a Menstrual Health, Dignity, and Sustainability Act, backed by over 35 leading experts, NGOs, academics, environmentalists, and period product manufacturers.
Supporters include Baroness Natalie Bennett Green Party peer, Dr. Karen Joash Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, charity Girlguiding, and campaign group Bloody Good Period.
The act outlines actionable steps to improve menstrual health, sustainability and ongoing stigma surrounding menstruation. It frames menstruation as both a human rights and public health issue, drawing inspiration from pioneering policies in Catalonia and Scotland.
🚨We need your help
Our research shows that more than eight in 10 UK women and people who menstruate agree period products must be better regulated and nine in 10 agree manufacturers should be made to list the contents on product packaging.
We urgently need a Menstrual Act. Please back the act by pledging your support, write to your MP using our template letters, and share the message on social media demanding a #MenstrualActNow. For more information and the full Menstrual Health, Dignity, and Sustainability Act and the list of supporters:
https://lnkd.in/e-GHVCJX