After 35 years of campaigning for safer, more sustainable period products, Wen is taking our Toxic Tipping Point campaign right to the heart of government.
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Statement in response to UK case accusing Johnson & Johnson of knowingly selling talcum powder contaminated with asbestos.
Wen takes Toxic Tipping Point campaign to Westminster for Environmenstrual Week
This is the tipping point. Regulation is the only way to ensure all period products are safe to use.
This month, Zarina Ahmad, Co-director, focusses to Palestine, a place where the intersections of gender, health, race, and environment are not abstract, but lived daily, under occupation and now, genocide.
Read our letter from our Co-Directors, Kate Metcalf and Zarina Ahmad, introducing our impact report 2024/2025
The Food Lives team travelled to Liverpool for The UK Food System in Crisis Symposium. Invited by Professor Damian O’Doherty, they shared insights from their research in Tower Hamlets.
Interview with Kathrin Schilling, Assistant Professor at CUIMC of Environmental Health Sciences, about the recent research which found PFAS in reusable menstrual products
This month, Zarina Ahmad, Co-director, Wen shares her thoughts on feminism, food and community gardens.
Wen (Women’s Environmental Network) has been awarded over £1.5 million in National Lottery funding. The grant, from the National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK, will support our Climate Sisters project, which will help to ensure that racialised and marginalised women are included in local, regional and national…










