{"id":77084,"date":"2026-04-20T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/apr\/20\/myanmar-military-regime-widens-sanitary-towel-ban-claiming-rebels-use-them-for-first-aid"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:00:07","slug":"myanmar-military-regime-widens-sanitary-towel-ban-claiming-rebels-use-them-for-first-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77084","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar military regime widens sanitary towel ban, claiming rebels use them for first aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activists say clamp down on period products to target insurgents is gender-based violence and violates rights<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>The south-east Asian country has been locked in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jan\/31\/why-is-myanmar-embroiled-in-conflict\">civil war since 2021<\/a>, when the military usurped the democratic government and launched a violent crackdown on dissidents. Artillery fire, the burning of townships and arbitrary arrests have become common in the years since then.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/apr\/20\/myanmar-military-regime-widens-sanitary-towel-ban-claiming-rebels-use-them-for-first-aid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists say clamp down on period products to target insurgents is gender-based violence and violates rightsMyanmar\u2019s military regime is expanding its ban on the distribution of period products, claiming they are being used to treat wounded resistance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[87,59,53,984,82,79,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conflict-and-arms","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-menstruation","category-myanmar","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77085,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77084\/revisions\/77085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}