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CASE STUDIES
Case 1.India girl kills herself over 'menstruation shaming'
Recently in a school in Tamil Nadu, a 12-year-old school girl of 7th class committed suicide after
menstrual shaming. According to her mother, her periods started during a class where she was given a
duster cloth to be used as a pad. Then reportedly, she was forced to leave the classroom when her
clothes got stained by blood. The next day she did not bear the humiliation and committed suicide due
to harassing and torturing by the teacher in the class as written in the suicide note

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Case 2.70 girls allegedly made to strip for menstrual blood check by warden at UP school
Around 70 girls of the Kasturba School hostel were ordered to remove their clothes by the hostel
warden to check for menstrual blood after she found blood stains in the washroom. This shameful act
happened in Muzaffarnagar (UP) in March 2017

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Case 3:G Talukdar, an 18-year old woman from Assam’s Baram area, died on 23 April 2017
after a parasite was found inside her stomach
G Talukdar, an 18-year old woman from Assam’s Baram area, died on 23 April 2017 after a parasite was
found inside her stomach. The story came to light when the woman complained of severe pain after her
stomach swelled in an abnormal manner. She was admitted to a hospital in Guwahati on Saturday
evening. Her family had noticed the swelling for almost two weeks but had assumed that she was
pregnant as a result of an affair. Despite initially being concerned about the  consequences of a
pregnancy and the need to get her married, her family finally got her admitted to Guwahati Medical
College and Hospital once she began suffering from serious stomach pain.The doctors, after
examination, found that a parasite had been scavenging her from the inside for almost two months,
resulting in severe damage to her intestine. The doctors concluded that it had happened due to
the unhygienic practice of using cloth in place of sanitary napkins during periods. The use of old pieces
of cloth in place of sanitary napkins is commonplace in rural Assam, where access to proper menstrual
hygiene is still limited.

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