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Virginity testing is most common in Asia and the Middle East, as well as Northern and Southern Africa and in Europe. [2] Virginity testing is widely considered controversial because of its implications for the tested women and girls as it is viewed as unethical, [3] and because such tests
During the Egyptian revolution of 2011, several female protestors at Tahrir Square were taken into military custody and subjected to torture and virginity tests.. Protestors were evacuated from Tahrir Square on March 9 and military police took at least 18 women into military custody, where they were beaten, electrocuted, and subjected to searches after being stripped, while male soldiers ...
The 1999 human rights law in Indonesia [3] bans discrimination against women. [4] The UN Human Rights Office called for ban of virginity testing, viewing the practice to be medically unnecessary, often painful, humiliating, and traumatic. [5] Despite international pressure, Jokowi's government has not initiated legislation to end virginity testing.
Indonesia's top military commander is defending a controversial test that aims to determine if a female recruit is a virgin before allowing her to join the armed forces. The BBC explains that it ...
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All girls are required to undergo a virginity test before they are allowed to participate in a royal dance. [4] In recent years the testing practice has been met with some opposition. [6] The girls wear traditional attire, including beadwork, izigege, izinculuba and imintsha that show their bottoms. [7]
Such virginity-testing bans have been controversial; while there is a consensus that virginity cannot be scientifically and medically certified, some physicians argue that certificates, while intrinsically dishonest, protect vulnerable women from potentially life-threatening danger.