It’s not every day that a second-year art school project makes headlines. But in October 2013, the press got wind of one Central Saint Martins student’s plan for a new performance piece, titled Art ...

Indonesia's top military commander defended a requirement that female recruits undergo an invasive "virginity test" to determine whether they are morally suited for the armed forces. His remarks ...

There has been widespread condemnation to a new law in Indonesia which makes it mandatory for female police recruits in Indonesia to go for a virginity test before they could be accepted. Married ...

How would you react if your virginity becomes the gateway to higher education? According to some members of Egyptian parliament, before female students are worthy of receiving higher education, they ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...