Publication-Press Release-PERIOD POVERTY IS A POLICY FAILURE Says ActionAid Liberia
Calls for the Passage of The Sanitary Pad Tax Exemption Act
ActionAid Liberia stands with the millions of girls and women across this country whose right to dignity, health, and education is being denied, not by circumstance, but by policy. Every month, adolescent girls in Liberia's public schools face an invisible but devastating choice: go to school without adequate menstrual protection, or stay home. Many choose to stay home.
This is not a personal failing. It is a national emergency, one manufactured by a 30 percent tax on sanitary pads, crumbling school WASH infrastructure, deep-rooted stigma, and a Legislature that has allowed a life-changing bill to gather dust in committee Room. READ the full StaTement & Download.