In Vietnam, some religious and traditional belief systems discriminate against women and encourage them to stay in situations of violence and abuse. A Vietnamese psychologist explains how she’s helping single mothers unlearn disempowering beliefs, as they overcome trauma and learn to love themselves fully.
Read More“How would you feel if you woke up someday on stained cloth of period blood knowing that you do not have any healthy menstrual product to manage that?” - Sharmin Kabir teaches us what it means to experience period poverty.
Read MoreAnita became pregnant when she was working as a domestic worker in Singapore and was abandoned by the baby’s father, an Indonesian migrant worker. Anita was banned from working in Singapore and deported to Batam as it’s illegal for domestic workers to get pregnant while working in Singapore. As a single mother in a conservative Muslim country, Anita was socially stigmatised, and had nowhere to turn.
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