Tuesday could be a monumental day for women’s rights in the Middle East, or if history repeats itself, Tuesday could be a shameful day for women’s rights. Samira Ibrahim, an Egyptian woman who was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Indonesian police force vowed to abandon the use of so-called “virginity test” for female civil servants in 2015, but a new report indicates that the country’s military has still not followed suit ...

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 ...

The Iranian artist sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison for her satirical cartoons critical of the Iranian government was forced to repeatedly undergo virginity and pregnancy tests last ...

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 ...

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 ...

Virginity is a concept that has shaped cultures, laws, and personal identities for thousands of years. Yet much of what people believe about virginity is rooted in myth rather than science. From ...

The Supreme Court of Appeals overturned a decision about a defendant who confessed to raping 12 girls, all under the age of 15. The court ordered the girls to take virginity tests. Women want the TCK ...