This is why girls-focused development charity Plan International UK and Plan Australia launched a campaign to create a period emoji, in an attempt to reduce the taboo surrounding period and ...

As part of iOS 13.2, users can see the new emoji on an iPhone or any other compatible device.. An organization that "advances children's rights and equality for girls," Plan International UK ...

The emoji is being introduced thanks to U.K.-based Plan International, a girls' rights group, that launched a social media campaign to call for the special emoji to help curb the shame and stigma ...

Emoji has become a universal language of its own, but up until now there wasn’t one for people to say “I’m on my period” — and that’s more important than you might think.. This bloody ...

Apple has added nearly 400 new emojis as part of its latest iOS update, including gender-neutral people and a drop of blood to represent menstruation. As part of iOS 13.2, users can see the new emo… ...

Period emoji now available on iPhones in latest Apple iOS update. ... which signals a real breakthrough in the fight against period stigma. "Girls, ...

We campaigned for a period emoji and now, finally, we’ve got one. The endless scroll for suitable substitutions – the floating red orb, the exploding volcano, the Japan flag – is over and we ...

Lucy Russell, Head of Girls' Rights & Youth at Plan International UK, says the period emoji, "which can express what 800 million women around the world are experiencing every month, is a huge step ...

In fact, last year in Nepal, a 15-year-old girl suffocated to death because she was forced to sleep in a hut when she was menstruating. Period stigma has a much more serious effect on women than ...

A period emoji would be so convenient and turns out, we’re finally getting one. Unicode , the entity that designs the emojis, confirmed that a “drop of blood” would be included in the Emoji ...

While Plan International doesn’t claim an emoji could solve all these issues - after all, some of the world’s poorest women and girls have no access to cell phones, though globally more people ...

Emojis may have started out as the language of teenagers and Tinder dates, but these days, everyone and their technologically-challenged grandmother uses them. As they’ve grown in popularity ...