Menstrual Discrimination is Underlying Barrier for Claiming SRHR (Baseline Report of Project Entitled `Menstrual Dignity for SRHR in all Diversities)

This baseline study entitled `Menstrual Dignity for SRHR in all Diversities’ is a unique research project. With immense pleasure, on behalf of the Radha Paudel Foundation.

Nepal has been engaging various national and international human rights instruments, movements, agreements, and policies against Menstrual Discrimination (MD). The continuation of MD is a critical aspect of not only Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) but also preventing of GBV (Gender Based Violence) and promotion of human rights in all diversities in Nepal. Over the past 20 years, Nepal has made significant strides towards ensuring gender equality and ending gender-based discrimination and violence through policy and legislative measures. Nepal has signed more than 12 international human rights instruments, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which it ratified in 1991, and the Optional Protocol, which it ratified in 2007.