Early this year, courts in Pakistan pushed to outlaw virginity tests. Activists hope the country will join the growing list of nations abolishing the invasive practice. However, the U.S. is still ...

From behind the privacy curtain, a doctor is telling Sophia* to take off her knickers and trousers. She obliges while taking great shaking sobs. Trembling, she lies down and opens her legs. The doctor ...

Women in the army have been subjected for decades to a procedure that has been condemned as pseudoscientific and a violation of human rights. By Daniel Victor Muktita Suhartono and Christine Hauser ...

In a new report, international agencies are calling for an elimination of virginity tests, stating that they’re medically unnecessary and a violation of the human rights of girls and women. The report ...

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 ...

Dozens of women subjected to the “virginity test” when they married into military families in Indonesia also quietly spoke against the practice. General Perkasa said that the army’s medical officers ...