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An official public health policy has been created to stop the practice of virginity testing from being performed in every clinic and hospital in Afghanistan.

July 6th, 2018

The Guardian

  • Virginity testing was banned in 2016, but police have continued to pick up girls and women suspected of having sex, and take them to hospitals or clinics where they are forced to undergo a virginity test.
  • According to a 2016 Human Rights Watch report, almost half of all women incarcerated in Afghanistan – and 95% of girls in juvenile detention – are there for “moral crimes” such as sex before marriage.

 

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