[GA - WITHDRAWN] Action on Period Poverty

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Action on Period Poverty
Category: Social Justice | Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Tinhampton | Onsite Topic​

Concerned that many member states have not yet acted to expand access to menstrual products, which has led to menstruating students missing out on billions of hours of education every year (which can severely affect their life prospects) and low-income menstruators often having to use ineffective substitutes or even steal menstrual products, to name just two examples, and

Recognising the need to end this travesty once and for all in developed and developing nations alike...

The General Assembly hereby:

  1. mandates that:
    1. all hospitals in member states provide menstrual products for patients in genuine need who request them and staff,
    2. all educational establishments in member states that do not solely educate non-menstruators provide menstrual products for staff and students,
    3. all businesses in member states with toilet facilities open to consumers provide menstrual products in those toilets for employees and customers,
    4. all other operators of public toilet facilities in member states provide menstrual products in those toilets,
    5. those menstrual products described in this Article be accessible, usable as intended by any menstruators foreseen to need them, free of charge, and first made available within six months of the passage of this resolution, and that
    6. locations providing menstrual products under Articles a(i-iv) also provide bins designed for the safe disposal of those products,
  2. requires each member state to:
    1. raise awareness among its inhabitants of Article a's provisions,
    2. provide that those students receiving a curriculum which contains every element of a basic education learn about periods in terms of biology, society, and physical and mental health, and
    3. ensure that those entities within their jurisdiction described in Articles a(i-iv) comply with Article a; including by providing logistical and financial assistance to help them comply,
  3. recommends that members consider funding or otherwise supporting the provision of free and accessible menstrual supplies in other contexts, and
  4. encourages members to work with civil society to end the stigmas surrounding periods.
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(Non-WA) I am entirely for this proposal. The proposal enacts good policy, and it does so in a thorough fashion. It also manages to sidestep concerns about non-human roleplay quite well.
 
Magecastle:
For, tentatively.
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Against, per Discord. It seems to require that businesses which aren't schools or hospitals (what a strange and very specific exception to make?) provide menstruation equipment, regardless of the actual need for them. I'm also confused by which Section a.ii allows schools to avoid providing menstrual products to both stuents and staff, if no students are menstruators, regardless of whether their staff are.
 
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Magecastle:
Against, per Discord. It seems to require that businesses which aren't schools or hospitals (what a strange and very specific exception to make?) provide menstruation equipment, regardless of the actual need for them.
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Deliberate.

Magecastle:
I'm also confused by which Section a.ii allows schools to avoid providing menstrual products to both stuents and staff, if no students are menstruators, regardless of whether their staff are.
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Many schools which only teach non-menstruators only employ such. Menstruating teachers in such schools should be able to afford and furnish menstrual products for their own use.
 
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