Tjueåttende mai:
Global:
Women's body and everything to do with it has for centuries been a taboo subject. It's been considered unclean and everyone concerned with it unclean as well.
To get women in private to talk about menstrual hygiene, or talk to women in private about it, has been difficult and a long process in the making; not to mention discussing the process of it in public.
But the facts remain that it is one of the most important things a woman should concern herself as it has (often) direct impact on one's health in general.
There are of course places where income, social norms and/or availability makes it harder, maybe even impossible, for a woman to get even adequate materials for menstrual hygiene. And matters certainly aren't helped by the fact that it's only recently that women haven't been down prioritized.
Others:
Nepal:
The ten-year long Nepalese Civil War had been a result of the civil strife that had occurred during the 1990s. Which in turn was due to the policy of the government that had been elected in 1991.
Nepal, having been a monarchy for 240 years since the formation of the modern Nepal when Prithvi Narayan Shah became its first monarch, became a republic as a result of the Civil War.
Author's notes:
I've to say that I find the Global section of this chapter more important than the Others-Nepal section.
I don't own Hetalia