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 ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. How would you react if your virginity becomes the gateway to higher education? According to some members of Egyptian ...

The comments, as soon as they made the rounds, were met with swift condemnation: Rapper T.I. says he takes his daughter to the gynecologist after each birthday to determine if she's a virgin.

Woman today in Egypt won a right that they obviously should have had all along after an Egyptian court banned the administration of "virginity tests" on female prisoners, reports MSNBC and CNN. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) – 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 ...