Activists say clamp down on period products to target insurgents is gender-based violence and violates rights The price of a pack of sanitary pads on the black market in Myanmar has tripled to more than the minimum daily wage. Photograph: Nyan Zay Htet/Unicef Myanmar’s military regime is expanding its ban on the distribution of period products, claiming they are being used to treat wounded resistance fighters, according to local activists. The south-east Asian country has bee

A female health worker, accompanied by her mahram or male chaperone, arrives at work in a snowstorm in the province of Zabul, south...