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The documentary film “I hope it doesn’t go viral: Journalism and sexist attacks in the digital age” was produced by MLSA, Media and Law Studies Association, a Turkish non-profit founded in late 2017, in response to the urgent and growing need to go back to democracy in Turkey.

In Montenegro, 25% of menstruating women report that they cannot afford basic period hygiene products. These products are also still subject to 21% VAT...

In France, 2 million women face difficulties in accessing period hygiene products, for lack of financial means. 7% of students suffer menstrual precariousness, and 1 in 10 will have to invent makeshift pads...

For Italian women in precarious economic conditions, it is becoming increasingly difficult to afford these expenses that come along with their periods, every four or five weeks.

It is estimated that only 30% of Moroccan women have access to sanitary products. This period poverty mainly affects women in rural areas.

According to a 2021 report by NGO "Pariter", almost 12% of women in Croatia cannot afford to change tampons or pads as much as they would like to...

The money being spent on hygiene products for menstruation is a heavy financial burden for tens of thousands of women who already live in precarious conditions. These expenses can constitute up to 5% of a woman’s total budget.

The government does not support the price of sanitary pads, and considers them as luxury products or even a generous source of tax revenue.

Meet the #MedFemiNiswiya faces! Watch this video filmed during our first in-person meeting in November 2022 in Tunisia after 3 years of a long-distance virtual relationship!

RAWSA published a video in RAWSA Facebook page on the abortion with a combination of testimonies on abortion situation in the MENA region : in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria and Morocco.