In comparison, the poverty ratio in urban areas fell to 4.09 per cent from 4.6 per cent during the same period. The report notes this decline in the rural poverty ratio is on account of higher ...

Period products are evolving, and so is the way people talk about menstruation — but period poverty is still a major issue across Australia. Period underwear like Ms Woolley's absorbs menstrual ...

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (The Center Square) — Period poverty impacts menstruating students across the commonwealth, but stigma around women’s health has long created barriers to speaking openly ...

Painting offered Big Issue co-founder John Bird hope at a low ebb and its ability to renew hope hasn't failed him yet.

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A group of retired Black women in Philly, many already skilled quilters and artists, gather weekly to sew period pads for ...

The Korean Modern Art Experience Program was held from Dec. 17-18 at the Korean Cultural Centre (KCC) in New Delhi, India.

For Bree Wallace, this is another step towards ending period poverty. “Many people as we know live paycheck to paycheck. May people are unhoused, are living within poverty and they don’t have ...

Ella Lambert and her team spent most of the summer collecting aid to be sent to Lebanon A charity supplying reusable sanitary pads to fight period poverty around the globe has sent a container ...

Data from the government’s statistics agency shows that 25.22 million people in Indonesia, or 9.03 per cent of the population, were living below the poverty line of 582,932 rupiah (US$37 ...

Census data paint a complicated picture of progress against poverty in 2023, as the national poverty rate fell, rose, or held steady depending on which measure is used:The official... Some measures of ...

The research also found that people of color were disproportionally affected by a lack of household water, a situation defined by the authors as "plumbing poverty ... a 51-year period in the ...