International Women's Day: Breaking India's menstruation taboos

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Breaking India's period taboos with a comic Aditi Gupta created a comic book to help girls in India better understand their periods.

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Why I use a ritual bath after my period Jewish women have used the mikve for centuries, but in Israel there's been a push to change the tradition.

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Periods 'keeping girls out of school' Some 350,000 girls say they have missed school at some point because of being on their period, research from YouGov suggests.

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Man's 'period poverty' rescue is a film A new film, Pad Man, charts one man's 20-year bid to make cheaper sanitary towels available in India.

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'How River Gods are ruining my education' Ghanaian schoolgirls have been banned from crossing a river to get to school while they are menstruating - and on Tuesdays.