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period poverty
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How to fix the news switch off? A review of our solutions stories from 2023
What happens when journalists find responses to social issues that might already be working? Should we examine solutions as well as problems?
How a Nigerian NGO is pushing back against period stigma…one boy at a time
In Nigeria girls are missing school because of unaffordable period products and stigma. Now one NGO is trying a new approach – not only giving out pads, but recruiting both boys and girls to help fight period stigma.
The tampon dispatch – Perth’s solution to menstrual equity
For World Menstruation Hygiene Day, The Ferret visited the small city where the council claims to have spent £50,000 giving away sanitary products since 2018.
Claim period products bill was brought by Labour and opposed by SNP is Half True
Ferret Fact Service looks at who was behind the period products bill at Holyrood.
