{"id":355081,"date":"2026-01-31T17:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=355081"},"modified":"2026-01-31T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:37:55","slug":"menstrual-hygiene-as-a-fundamental-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/menstrual-hygiene-as-a-fundamental-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Menstrual Hygiene as a Fundamental Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment while hearing a case on nationwide implementation of the Centre\u2019s menstrual hygiene policy for school-going girls.<\/p>\n<h2>About Menstrual Hygiene as a Fundamental Right<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_355082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-355082\" style=\"width: 389px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-355082\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-HT-1.jpg?resize=389%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Menstrual Hygiene as a Fundamental Right\" width=\"389\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-HT-1.jpg?resize=300%2C247&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-HT-1.jpg?resize=768%2C631&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-HT-1.jpg?w=810&amp;ssl=1 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-355082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; HT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The Supreme Court held that the <strong>right to menstrual hygiene and access to related products<\/strong> is part of the <strong>right to life under Article 21.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Case Background:<\/strong> The judgment was delivered by a Bench of <strong>Justices J. B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan <\/strong>during a hearing <strong>related to menstrual hygiene in schools.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Supreme Court Observation<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Article 21 (Dignity and Privacy): <\/strong>The Court ruled that <strong>dignity cannot remain an abstract idea<\/strong> and must include conditions that prevent humiliation, exclusion, and avoidable suffering.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Forcing girls to choose between education and menstruation violates the right to live with dignity.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Article 14 (Substantive Equality): <\/strong>The SC observed that <strong>equal treatment without addressing existing disadvantages<\/strong> perpetuates inequality.\n<ul>\n<li>The absence of menstrual hygiene facilities converts a biological reality into structural exclusion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Article 21A (Right to Education): <\/strong>Lack of menstrual hygiene facilities acts as an <strong>infrastructural barrier to education<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>Removing this barrier is necessary to make education truly free, compulsory, and accessible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment while hearing a case on nationwide implementation of the Centre\u2019s menstrual hygiene policy for school-going girls. About Menstrual Hygiene as a Fundamental Right The Supreme Court held that the right to menstrual hygiene and access to related products is part of the right to life under Article&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/menstrual-hygiene-as-a-fundamental-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Menstrual Hygiene as a Fundamental Right<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-355081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}