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Nagpur Advocate Manjeet Kaur Matani’s Journey of Service, Law and Social Justice

Asia
INDIA: Advocate Manjeet Kaur Matani has emerged as a social and legal activist in Maharashtra whose work has focused on issues involving vulnerable communities, women's rights, rehabilitation and access to employment. Her journey from a farming...

BRICS Digital Assets Debate Shifts Focus from CBDCs to Interoperability

Asia
INDIA: A recent BRICS roundtable on digital assets and tokenisation examined how emerging financial technologies could reshape cross-border payments, settlement and capital markets. Among the central themes was a question that extends beyond the development of...

How Period Poverty Pushes Impoverished Zimbabwe Girls To Use Cow Dung As Sanitary Pads  

Healthcare
  AFRICA. Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe’s economic crisis and high inflation rate have pushed about 72% of the rural girls in Domboshava, the capital of Harare, into...

Period Poverty: Female Students Call On Nigerian Government To Make Sanitary Pads Free

Environment
NIGERIA. Niger: Female students across Nigeria are demanding that the federal government make Sanitary pads available to them for free. This, according to the students,...

Afghan Women Grapple With The Taboo Around Menstruation

Education
AFGHANISTAN. Herat: When 19-year-old Halima, from Herat, had her first period, she was afraid. She thought it was a unique illness only she suffered...

Young Girls Aspire To Help Less Privileged Peers Meet Sexual Health Demands

Education
Zimbabwe. Harare: Ordinary (O) level students created the Bright Girl Movement (BGM) and launched a "donate a pad, save her from cancer" campaign to...

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