Women protest in Uttar Pradesh, India, where two teenage girls were gang-raped, murdered and hung from a tree in May. Reuters The 'two-finger test' is still being used to ascertain if a woman has been ...

Following the outcry over the controversial ‘two-finger test’ for rape victims, the Delhi government on Monday said its guidelines on the issue had been ‘misinterpreted’. Delhi Health Minister ...

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday ordered disciplinary action and initiation of contempt proceedings against doctors who are conducting the “two-finger test” in violation of an earlier ...

The Indian health ministry has outlawed the two-finger test performed on rape victims and declared it unscientific, NDTV India reports. The procedure has been described as a demeaning procedure which ...

India may have banned two-finger virginity test, but three years on doctors are still subjecting rape victims to the humiliating and invasive procedure instead of using the government’s rape tests ...

India’s Supreme Court has prohibited the use of the “two-finger test” in rape cases and asked the federal government and the states to ensure that the controversial practice is stopped. On Monday a ...

A human rights organisation has demanded the so-called 'two finger rape test' to see if a woman has been assaulted to be banned. Activists argue the unreliable and invasive test on a rape victim is a ...

The Lahore High Court on Monday declared that the two-finger examination to determine the virginity of survivors of sexual assault was “illegal and unconstitutional”, adding that it had “no forensic ...

Human rights campaigners have welcomed a decision by a Pakistani court outlawing so-called "virginity tests" in rape examinations. The ruling, which applies in Punjab province, will end the practice ...

Sexual crimes have been under the spotlight in India in recent years Authorities in the Indian capital, Delhi, say an official letter that encouraged doctors to use a banned test to determine whether ...

Human rights campaigners have welcomed a decision by a Pakistani court outlawing so-called "virginity tests" in rape examinations. The ruling, which applies in Punjab province, will end the practice ...