Globally, more than 800 million women and girls are stigmatized, excluded and discriminated against simply because they menstruate. An additional 500 million lack access to basic period products and facilities needed for menstrual hygiene management.

As a result, these women and girls end up missing school and work, and they often become the target of gender-based violence due to misunderstanding and stigma.

Safety is an inherent part of Kimberly-Clark’s caring value, and the company is proud to announce that its Flint and Coleshill manufacturing facilities in Wales have achieved more than 1 million hours without a single reportable injury. The facilities reached this safety milestone by engaging and empowering every employee across all levels to look out for each other and ensure everyone goes home the same way they arrived.

Shonn Evans Brown, the vice president and deputy general counsel for global litigation, regulatory and preventive law at Kimberly-Clark, has long held a deep passion for the advancement of women and girls, education and the arts.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) Day is celebrated as a day of service in the United States in honor of civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But for Kimberly-Clark’s vice president of global manufacturing, Hakim Richard Savoy, MLK Day is more than a day to do good deeds and kind acts. It’s a day to truly commit to championing human rights around the world.