Reusable period products are still the most sustainable and kind on the environment, say anti-plastics campaigners, despite the introduction of flushable, biodegradable sanitary products. According to a recent survey commissioned by Fluus, a company that sells flushable pads and tampons, over a third of women polled had flushed these two sanitary items and more than half of them do it every month.
A sponsor of an amendment to the Online Safety Bill that seeks to boost protections for women and girls fears the government will block its passage through parliament.
This month’s curator for Bodyswap, a series of events held at the East London nightclub Dalston Superstore to celebrate the transgender community, says there is a lack of ethnic diversity in the capital’s trans and queer scenes.
Children can have an impact in the fight against climate change and to save our oceans, say the teenaged founders of Kids Against Plastic (KAP) on the eve of World Ocean Day tomorrow.
Youth activists in Wales say they’ll be keeping an eye on how the Welsh government delivers the radical reforms it has promised to overhaul the nation’s care system services in the face of a steep increase in the number of children in care.
Students in Delhi and Mumbai, from India’s eight north-eastern states, have organised donation drives for those affected by violent clashes that have rocked the north-eastern state of Manipur.
The children’s author Petr Brezina is developing a new series of fairy tales and multimedia materials to help educate young children on life skills, like basic financial literacy, family values and social skills.
As the UK marks the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History month, a new report finds children from traveller communities experience “shocking racist bullying” in schools.