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CAIRO - Hundreds of Egyptian activists rallied in Cairo on Friday, lambasting a recent military tribunal ruling that cleared a military doctor of charges he forced a "virginity test" on female ...

An Egyptian court on Tuesday ordered the country's military rulers to stop the use of "virginity tests" on female detainees, a practice that has caused an uproar among activists and rights groups.

In a disconcerting incident, a school-cum-madrassa in Moradabad faces legal scrutiny after being accused of demanding a 'virginity test' report before admitting a student. The father of the ...

Luxembourg’s Consultative Commission on Human Rights has come out in strong support of a bill banning so-called virginity tests, virginity certificates and hymenoplasty (a surgical procedure to ...

The Swedish government wants to criminalise virginity tests to strengthen the protection of young girls and women at risk of so-called honour crimes, sources told AFP on Wednesday. The Barron's news ...

DUSHANBE -- Suhrob spent years working on construction sites in Russia to save money for his dream wedding back in Tajikistan. But just weeks after a lavish ceremony in his home village on the ...

A 35-YEAR-OLD man from Nhlabithini village 5 in Inyathi, Matabeleland North, is in soup following his arrest for aggravated indecent assault after he allegedly inserted his finger in his 10-year-old ...

Gen. Sri Rumiati served as a policewoman in Indonesia for decades, but her life’s work became centered around protesting a policy of the state security forces. When she was summoned for military ...

Dateline investigates India's obsession with virginity and the archaic practice of virginity tests. We reveal how some women are seeking ways to fake their virginity to avoid exile and abuse... Read ...

TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan -- Female high school students in Turkmenistan’s coastal province of Balkan are being subjected to mandatory virginity tests, which officials say are needed to evaluate the ...