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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Nagpur: Despite explicit directions from the National Medical Commission (NMC) to eliminate unscientific and discriminatory concepts of "virginity" from medical education, several forensic medicine ...