The India Supreme Court Monday declared that performing the “two-finger” or “three-finger” vaginal test on victims of rape or sexual assault will be classed as misconduct. Also dubbed the “virginity” ...

While India has promised swift justice in the case of the woman who died Saturday after a brutal gang rape, human-rights groups say the problem is much thornier than punishing the six men accused in ...

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Authorities in New Delhi said on Monday they would ban doctors from conducting an archaic and degrading test during the forensic examinations of rape victims, ...

The Lahore High Court on Monday issued a ruling declaring the use of the “two finger test and hymen examination” to determine the virginity of a female victim of rape or sexual abuse to be ...

KARACHI, Feb 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It is two months since Shazia underwent a so-called virginity test during a rape examination at a Karachi hospital, but the Pakistani teenager is still ...

Authorities in the Indian capital, Delhi, say an official letter that encouraged doctors to use a banned test to determine whether a woman had been raped was "misinterpreted". The note, issued in May, ...