Human Rights Framework on Menstrual Health and Hygiene

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.029How to use a DOI?

Keywords

menstrual health, education, gender equality, women’s rights

Abstract

A discussion regarding menstruation among girls from an early age still being regarded as a taboo. The stigma that surrounds it held menstruation as something unclean, shameful, and impure. But it cannot be denied that such process is a natural and inextricable part of women’s growth. Therefore, we must acknowledge the pressing issue of Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH) familiarly in regard to adolescent students. It is necessary to have a holistic approach to understand MHH within the context of human rights, including women’s and girl’s human rights. When women and girls cannot manage their menstrual hygiene, it can negatively impact their rights, including the rights to education, work and health. Against this background, the article is aiming to examine MHH in the context of human rights and gender equality that may engage local, municipal, provincial and national government actors who are not attuned to MHH concerns. Education regarding MHH should also be a priority and being included into the school curricula, and such aim could only be fulfilled with the aid from the local government, as the policy-maker, to create a definite legal framework that support gender equality and fulfillment of women’s rights.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Khansadhia Afifah Wardana
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/20
TI  - Human Rights Framework on Menstrual Health and Hygiene
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Law, Economics and Health (ICLEH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 140
EP  - 146
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.029
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.029
ID  - Wardana2020
ER  -