How Periods Make Life Complicated for Women and Girl Refugees
For millions of girls and women, menstruation is a burden. Here’s why helping displaced and poor women and girls with their periods is a way to show them proper respect.
#femmes #menstruations #réfugiés #camps_de_réfugiés #asile #migrations
This Is What It Is Like To Have Your Period In A Refugee Camp When You’re Scared To Go To The Toilet
Moria refugee camp was intended for 2,000 people. Aid workers now estimate that there are more than 6,000 inside and spilling out into the countryside around it — many of them vulnerable women and children.
LESBOS, Greece — “I am more scared when I bleed, it is very, very hard.” The 15-year-old Syrian girl standing in front of her family’s tent in the warm Greek sun, hands in her pockets, doesn’t smile, but looks down at the mud covering her battered, thin blue sandals.
▻https://www.buzzfeed.com/rosebuchanan/this-is-what-its-like-to-be-on-your-period-in-an
#lesbos #Grèce #moria
Misery for Women and Girls in Greece’s Island Paradise
Government Downplays Sexual Violence Risks in Migrant #Hotspots
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/02/14/misery-women-and-girls-greeces-island-paradise
#violence_sexuelle #viols