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Integrating non-discrimination and equality into the post-2015 development agenda for water, sanitation and hygiene 2012, para. 76c (vii)

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[Against this background, the Special Rapporteur recommends the following:] Recommendations regarding data sources and methodology: Targets and indicators should be crafted to ensure that women and adolescent girls can manage menstruation hygienically and with dignity, including by specific questions in relevant household surveys about adequate menstrual hygiene management.
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
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2012
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Aug 19, 2019
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Integrating non-discrimination and equality into the post-2015 development agenda for water, sanitation and hygiene 2012, para. 74

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Because menstrual hygiene management has such a strong impact on gender equality, it could be used as a proxy for information about discrimination against women and girls in sanitation and hygiene. Targets and indicators should be crafted to capture the ability of all women and adolescent girls to manage menstruation hygienically and with dignity, supported by amending the relevant household surveys explicitly asking about adequate menstrual hygiene management.
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Water & Sanitation
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
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2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality in the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation 2016, para. 21

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In many cultures, girls are considered adults after their first menstruation and may drop out of school, marry and start having children. Increased knowledge of menstruation by both men and women, combined with strategies to lift social taboos on menstruation, may prevent girls from being considered as adults ready for marriage but, rather, as young adolescents going through a normal phase of their development.
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Harmful Practices
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  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
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2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Different levels and types of services and the human rights to water and sanitation 2015, para. 20

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Certain human rights obligations related to hygiene can be inferred from the rights to water and sanitation, as well as the right to health, the right to food, the right to privacy, human dignity and other human rights. This report focuses on the human rights obligations related to hand-washing at appropriate times, menstrual hygiene, management of child faeces and domestic food hygiene. A working group created under WHO and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation explained that "… various components are considered essential to menstrual hygiene management. The first is that women and adolescent girls use clean materials to absorb or collect menstrual blood, and are able to change them in privacy as often as necessary for the duration of their menstrual period. It also involves using soap and water for washing the body as required, and having access to safe and convenient facilities to dispose of used menstrual management materials. Further, women and girls need access to basic information about the menstrual cycle and how to manage it with dignity and without discomfort or fear."
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Water & Sanitation
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Integrating non-discrimination and equality into the post-2015 development agenda for water, sanitation and hygiene 2012, para. 73

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One particular area where individual inequalities and the lack of attention to the needs of women and girls is starkly apparent is menstrual hygiene management. Menstruation is a taboo topic. In this context, women and girls are forced into furtive practices and obliged to hide their hygiene practices and limit their movements during menstruation. Although there is a dearth of research in this area, several studies demonstrate that adolescent girls often face significant restrictions during and associated with their menses. Girls may be taken out of school or workplaces or choose not to attend because there are no facilities for hygienically managing menstruation in sanitation facilities.
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Health
  • Water & Sanitation
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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