Pregnant girls at the age of 13 or grandmothers at the age of 26 are of no surprise in Colombian slums. In the poorest social class, violence against women is especially striking: rape, sexual abuse or sex trafficking of minors happen on everyday basis. Teenage pregnancies are extremely prevalent. Colombia is a country that experienced a brutal 50-years long civil war as well as ruthless drug cartels. The long escalation of violence has caused millions of Colombian people to suffer from extreme poverty. The situation in Colombia has forced over 7 million people to leave their homes. Most of them now live in slums. Such a situation is the most difficult for women, who are additionally victims of violence and stigmatization resulting from a characteristic to Latin America machismo culture. Dominika Kulczyk, the President of the Kulczyk Foundation, together with Catalina Escobar reaches out to those inhabitants of slums that are most in need, offers them a chance to change their lives. Ca
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Period Poverty in Poland
SEATTLE, Washington Period poverty has been an invisible issue for years. Menstruation is a stigmatized subject. However, around 1.9 billion women and girls around the world currently menstruate. Millions of women and girls cannot manage their menstrual hygiene, leading to missed opportunities in education, work and life quality. However, the issue of period poverty is stigmatized and often goes unspoken. For example, both of the interviewees The Borgen Project interviewed had not heard of the term. Period poverty in Poland is no exception.
The Feminization of Poverty and Period Poverty
Diana Pearce, an American sociologist, first coined the term “feminization of poverty,” in 2011. She wrote a paper called “The Feminization of Poverty: Women, Work, and Welfare”. A representative from the Kulczyk Foundation said, “there is no clear definition”. In fact, because of the ever-constant presence of poverty among women within the modern world, t