How would you react if your virginity becomes the gateway to higher education? According to some members of Egyptian parliament, before female students are worthy of receiving higher education, they ...

It’s not every day that a second-year art school project makes headlines. But in October 2013, the press got wind of one Central Saint Martins student’s plan for a new performance piece, titled Art ...

CAIRO (AP) – 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 ...

Indonesia's top military commander defended a requirement that female recruits undergo an invasive "virginity test" to determine whether they are morally suited for the armed forces. His remarks ...

Woman today in Egypt won a right that they obviously should have had all along after an Egyptian court banned the administration of "virginity tests" on female prisoners, reports MSNBC and CNN. The ...

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An army doctor accused of public obscenity by activist Samira Ibrahim was acquitted Sunday by an Egyptian military tribunal. Ahmed Adel, a doctor conscripted to the Egyptian army, was accused by ...

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 ...

In a world where a hook-up can be equivalent to a handshake and sex-positive influencers dominate social media, you’d be forgiven for thinking the concept of virginity still mattered to anyone. But ...

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 ...

A top court in India has declared the virginity test performed on a Catholic nun 15 years ago in the course of a murder probe as “unconstitutional” and ordered police and other investigative agencies ...