Posted by A Twitter thread by @ariana_erbon
Day 2, 02/01/2020
More on child marriage:
https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/where-does-it-happen/
As soon as puberty hits and girls have their menarche, girls might be expelled from their homes during their periods or being kept in period huts:
Teen pregnancy is another huge global issue not properly addressed:
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/adolescent-pregnancy
Females who survive to adulthood safe from these practices can come across Period Stigma:
Period stigma can also affect females in all classes and in different ways:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40109228
Periods are an issue to many female children or teens, who are missing school for not affording menstrual pads:
Breast ironing/flattening, girls have their breasts flattened with heated rocks to look like boys for longer and avoid rape:
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/breast-ironing-cameroon-harmful-practice-girls/
Females should decide if they want children and when. No contraceptive is 100% effective and sexual abuse is rampant, resulting in unplanned pregnancies. Few countries have proper abortions rights. New Zealand is a developed country still debating it:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49234944
Ireland, another developed country, has approved abortions rights in 2019. Most countries with economical struggles do not allow abortions:
El Salvador case: country with one of the worst abortion laws in the world:
https://theconversation.com/the-unspeakable-cruelty-of-el-salvadors-abortion-laws-94004