Discrimination and Human Rights: the case of the Tampon Tax

The Tampon Tax has been for a long period ignored and, while the public opinion is now more active on the topic, it is still mostly unknown to many. Most countries apply a taxation on sanitary products that can range from 5% to 25% circa, which burdens an important part of the population for reasons beyond their control. While some EU Member States managed to tackle the issue quickly and efficiently, Italy has been fighting with the issue for some time, and only recently it has managed to temporarily reduce it to 5%.