Commonwealth leaders have laid the groundwork in previous communiques and action plans to tackle this issue, but today’s Commonwealth has a chance to go further. These best practices show that ending period poverty is a tangible and concrete objective that can be achieved with the right attention, and they need to be shared and scaled across the Commonwealth nations to ensure access to 12 years of quality education for all girls, universal health coverage for women and girls, and realization of their human rights. Australia also abolished its goods and services tax on tampons. For instance, Kenya eliminated their 'tampon tax', while Scotland now provides free period products in all schools and public institutions. To be sure, Commonwealth countries have already made significant strides in tackling period poverty. Imagine, though, the ripple effect of impact around the world for women, girls, and the pervasive stigma of period poverty if King Charles III were to address the issue in his first-ever speech as monarch at the summit! It would be a powerful way to ensure that menstrual equity becomes part of the global conversation and is officially recognized as a vital step toward the end of extreme poverty and gender inequity. The format for the meeting will be determined between the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Samoan Government. Supported by Procter & Gamble, the Gates Foundation, Miss Universe India and others, the GMEA’s potential impact would be dramatically amplified if it is included on the agenda of the next Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Samoa in 2024, which will be the first time King Charles attends as the Head of the Commonwealth. The Global Menstrual Equity Accelerator (GMEA) was launched at Global Citizen Festival in Ghana and New York in 2022 with the goal of promoting menstrual health equity through partnerships with grassroots organizations and initiatives around the world.
Levine) (Photo by Richard Levine/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images 40 states currently impose a sales tax on feminine hygiene products and there is also a bill under consideration in California to eliminate the tax. bill making its way through the Utah legislature would eliminate tax on tampons and other feminine hygiene products.
Packages of Tampax brand tampons on a drugstore shelf in New York on Wednesday, February 10, 2016.
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