Bolsonaro’s veto of plan to distribute free tampons, pads defies global efforts to make period care less onerous

About 713,000 girls in Brazil do not have access to a bathroom, according to a report released in May by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Overall, about 4 million girls lack access to hygiene products such as soap and sanitary pads at school; of those, about 200,000 study in schools that do not have adequate hygiene facilities.

Source: WP