Menstrual Rights Global Blog
Menstrual Rights Global presents an innovative and neoteric thought leadership platform that is co-designed to elevate the voices of researchers, advocates, communications specialist, healthcare workers, community facilitators, policymakers, and activist that are driving the menstrual health agenda in their context.
We welcome submissions that apply rights-based approaches and an intersectional lens to offer a unique perspective on menstrual health and period poverty.
According to the UNFPA,
1.3B
There are 1.3 billion women, adolescent girls, non-binary individuals, and transgender men that menstruate every month
Number of girls out of school worldwide in 2016
800M
800 million individuals are menstruating each day!
Women die from complications in pregnancy or child
500M
500 million of these people do not have the resources, time or spaces in environments that are free from stigma and shame to attain their menstrual health.
Need for contraception in sub-Saharan Africa left unmet
Glasgow’s Unfinished Commonwealth: Child Poverty in a High Income Country
Dr Jennifer S. Martin, CEO, Menstrual Rights Global, Scotland Over the next couple of weeks, Glasgow is once again hosting the Commonwealth Games, twelve years after
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Leadership in Menstrual Health Policy
Co-authors: Ruth Kamau, Co-founder and Director, Inclusive Speech Rights Initiative, Kenya Pamela Wango, Program Coordinator, Federation of Deaf Women Empowerment Network On Menstrual Hygiene Day
Breaking the Silence: The Psychology of Menstruation Among African Girls
Alu Mary OJima To promote a #PeriodFriendlyWorld for Menstrual Hygiene Day 2026, Alu Mary Ojima reflects on how the silence surrounding menstruation begins in childhood
Submission Guidelines
- Blogs must offer a unique perspective on menstrual health in the context go gender equality, WASH, emergencies, conflict, decolonisation, crisis, education, SRHR, public health, global, national, or local policy, community-driven programmes, or grassroots advocacy initiatives.
- Blogs must be 900-1,200 words in length – References must be embedded via hyperlinks.
- Information on co-authors must be submitted – full name, affiliations, & relevant Twitter handles.
- Blogs can have no more than five authors – there must be ONLY one corresponding author.
- Authorship must be regionally balanced.
- priority will be given to authors from low- to middle-income countries.
- Publication is at the discretion of the Menstrual Rights Global Editorial Team.
Submit your blog to jenni@menstrualrightsglobal.com
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