Red Stain, Red Umbrella: Shining a Light On the Menstrual Health And Hygiene of Structurally Marginalized Women and Girls With Multiple And Intersecting Vulnerabilities Including Sex Workers

Happy Menstrual Hygiene Day to all the wonderful women and girls who are menstruators. On a day that brings to the world awareness on the importance of menstrual hygiene, today we’re shining a light on the often-overlooked menstrual health needs of marginalized women and girls, including those engaging in sex work. While mainstream awareness is important, we must also prioritize the menstrual hygiene and well-being of those on the periphery of society, who often face multiple and intersecting layers of vulnerability, due to stigma, discrimination, judgement and living in obscurity of society.

Before we delve into the dynamics around sex work and menstrual hygiene let us establish that menstrual health hygiene is an inherent, indivisible, inalienable and universal human right of women as well as girls. Menstrual health and hygiene is connected to a number of human rights that thus places on states and non-state actors the obligations to protect, respect and fulfil the menstrual rights of rights holders with no discrimination. The achievement of good menstrual health hygiene is related to reproductive health, human right to water and sanitation, education and decent work. Women and girls are entitled to have access to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible, and affordable menstrual health, hygiene (MHH) facilities plus products for use in all spheres of life and that provide privacy as well as ensure dignity.

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