#EnvironmenstrualWeek Webinar

1-2pm BST 18th October 2023 on Zoom

Why do we need a Menstrual Health, Dignity and Sustainability Act?

Join us this #EnvironmenstrualWeek for a lively discussion about why we need a Menstrual, Health, Dignity and Sustainability Act.

Our guest speakers:

- Dr. Njoki Ngumi is a healthcare expert, filmmaker, writer, producer and strategist
- Assembly Member Linda B. Rosenthal, New York State
- Helen Lynn, Wen Health Advisor and Environmenstrual Campaign Manager

How is it that a product used by millions of women, girls and people who menstruate is not properly regulated? How can we hope to address issues like period poverty unless we can talk about menstruation? Why are we still trying to break down the stigma and taboos around periods in the 21st century?

Menstruation is a human rights and public health issue. The only way we can address the health and waste impacts, equity and dignity, period poverty, education and regulation, and challenge existing stigma and taboos of this multifaceted issue is to take an intersectional approach.

With places such as New York State, Kenya and Catalonia leading the way on menstrual rights, what can we learn from these countries? What are the issues women and people with periods face day in day out? How could an Act change this for the better?

This one hour lunchtime chat will be interactive too - with time for you to pose questions to our experts.

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About our guest speakers:

Dr. Njoki Ngumi is a non-clinical general practitioner, whose wider health knowledge and related expertise has been critical in the creative sector and connected arenas to enhance socioeconomic equity, equality and advancement for all, especially youth, women, and marginalised people.

As lead researcher at The Venio Group, a boutique Africa-facing, globally oriented strategic consultancy based in Nairobi, Kenya, she remains central in multi-sectoral public engagements, including high level advisory, education, policy work, stakeholder support and engagement, network building, and international dialogue.

Assembly member Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF Manhattan) represents the 67th New York State Assembly district, which includes the Upper West Side of Manhattan and parts of Hell’s Kitchen. She is a lifelong resident of the Upper West Side and currently serves as Chair of the Assembly Committee on Housing.

Since taking office in 2006, Assembly member Rosenthal has passed more than 150 laws that have helped to improve the lives of all New York State residents. She is a leading advocate on menstrual equity having passed laws to eliminate the sales tax on menstrual products in New York State and requiring that free products be provided in New York’s schools, correctional facilities and homeless shelters. In 2019, Assembly member Rosenthal passed the first-in-the-nation law requiring ingredient labeling on all menstrual product packaging.