Does Your Daughter’s School Have These 10 Menstrual Health Facilities? A Parent’s Checklist

Picture an ordinary Tuesday afternoon in Class 8, when your 13-year-old daughter starts her period an hour before the school bell and two days earlier than expected. She asks her teacher for permission to leave, walks down the corridor and reaches the girls' toilet, where the next few minutes will quietly show whether her school has met the law. If the door locks, the tap runs, and soap sits beside the basin, she is already ahead of girls whose schools offer none of these things.

If they are missing, an ordinary afternoon can turn into the kind of humiliation the court linked with…