Zara, not her real name, says her "whole world broke down" when she was forced by her family to have a 'virginity test'. The British-born Bangladeshi in her 20s had a forced marriage, but before the ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAIRO - 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 ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KGO) -- 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 ...

Move comes after this paper’s report about unscientific and discriminatory information like two-finger test finding their way back into the textbooks for second and third year students The NMC had ...

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 ...