That's the reason he was born

The emoji of menstruation will be represented by a red drop and will be available during this year. The new emoticon is added to the 230 new additions approved by the Unicode consortium.

In the coming months, the 230 new emoticons will be available and will reach all mobile platforms. Among them, is the emoji from a red drop that represents menstruation, and that has already started to generate different positions.

The red drop was approved by the Unicode consortium, after a campaign promoted by the NGO Plan Internacional. The organization stressed that the goal was "to break the taboo around rule in many countries".

The campaign to respect girls' rights had started in 2017 when the NGO Plan International had launched a call to Facebook for it to vote for one of the five possible models of the project. emoji it represents menstruation.

In principle, the design chosen on Facebook was rejected. Unicode has therefore proposed the red drop that has become a emoji that in the next few months will be available on cell phones. The director of the political impact of Plan International stated that "the emoji it's our universal language today and, as such, it makes sense to use it for the rule to cease to be the taboo that still remains in the world, although 800 million women and girls currently have it. "

In addition, he said that "in Africa, one in ten girls miss school for several days because of the rule and that stigma, lack of access to products or to Remediation are often reasons for dropping out of school ". In fact, it was pointed out that the values ​​of "sanitary napkins and other materials suffocated families". This encourages girls to stop attending school after the first menstrual period and to increase their chances of ending up in early marriages. "

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Source: Infobae.