A pobreza menstrual : um problema social que impede a efetivação dos direitos fundamentais de estudantes que já atingiram a menarca.

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the impacts of menstrual poverty on the lives of people of school age, using the deductive method of approach, as well as the monographic method of procedure, with bibliographic and documentary research techniques. In this context, the question-problem to be clarified consists of investigating whether menstrual poverty is an obstacle to the realization of the fundamental right to education of individuals who have already reached their menarche. To this end, we first examined scientific articles that described the reality experienced in developing countries, where the occurrence of menstrual poverty affects a more significant number of individuals, considering the scarcity of data collected in Brazilian territory. Then, to elucidate the situation of menstruating people in this country, reports produced by the United Nations Children's Fund were used, as well as doctrines and jurisprudence regarding the violation of the fundamental rights and guarantees assured by the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil of 1988. It was concluded that menstrual poverty, embodied in the absence of sanitary pads, water and other sanitizing materials, adequate bathrooms, and places to dispose of materials, undermines rights that are essential to human development, such as education and health. Still, the existing social inequality only intensifies the consequences and takes away the welfare of all menstruating people. It is up to the Brazilian State to implement effective measures in order to mitigate or eradicate this social problem.