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Gloria Orwoba wore a white pant-suit stained with red dye to parliament to fight the stigma surrounding menstruation affecting Kenyan women. She is campaigning for free access to period products to eliminate period poverty. She received online threats after her period poverty protest and was asked to leave halfway through the session in senate after her fellow parliamentarians requested the speaker eject her for supposedly violating the house’s “dress code”. However, there has also been support. The advocacy group Global Citizen Africa also tweeted support, saying: “Breaking the period stigma is crucial to ending period poverty.”