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 ...

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 ...

Virginity is a concept that has shaped cultures, laws, and personal identities for thousands of years. Yet much of what ...

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 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 ...

Despite explicit directives from the National Medical Commission (NMC) to eliminate unscientific and discriminatory notions of “virginity” from medical education, several forensic medicine textbooks ...

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 ...