SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A California lawmaker wants to end so-called virginity testing on women after rapper T.I.'s controversial claim that he takes his daughter to a gynecologist every year to verify ...

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 ...

On Monday, Farhad Javid will meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his wife, Rula Ghani, to ask whether the president will order the release of some 190 women and girls who are currently in jail ...

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 ...

Krishna and Aruna Indrekar refused to have a virginity test after their marriage in 1996. Vidhi Doshi The Washington Post PUNE, India - In the run-down neighborhood of Bhatnagar in this sleepy Indian ...

CAIRO (AP) – An Egyptian military tribunal on Sunday acquitted an army doctor of a charge of public obscenity filed by a protester who claimed she was forced to undergo a virginity test while in ...

There has been widespread condemnation to a new law in Indonesia which makes it mandatory for female police recruits in Indonesia to go for a virginity test before they could be accepted. Married ...

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 ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's police force came under fire on Tuesday for administering "virginity tests" for female applicants, a practice that was banned four years ago. Female candidates in major ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A human rights group urged Indonesia on Thursday to abolish invasive "virginity tests" for female recruits and the fiancees of military officers in its armed ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Turkey's health minister says high school girls training to be nurses must be virgins and the virginity tests he is authorizing will protect the nation's youth from prostitution ...