Abstract This article looks at India’s complaint the United Nations Human Rights Commission in 1979 about ‘virginity test’ performed on a migrant Indian woman Heathrow. It examines use of arguments race and racial discrimination by India to compel Britain discuss immigration bilateral basis. The argues that pivot race-based argument was deliberately patriarchal main concern these negotiations i...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the preferred actions of healthcare staff, as well as their reasoning and attitudes about young females' requests for a virginity certificate or hymen restoration. METHOD A qualitative study, consisting of semi-structured interviews of healthcare providers from different parts of Sweden and from different medical specialties and professions, who had experience of wom...

protecting hymen is related to sharia laws. sharia law has stressed on protecting honor, virtue, chastity and purity. in jurisprudence, the person who removes the hymen must be punished. this study aimed to review the jurisprudence of restoration of virginity. this study was based on a theoretical approach. it was conducted by studying the documents on this field and searching the topics on the...

Many countries, Sweden among them, lack professional guidelines and established procedures for responding to young females requesting virginity certificates or hymen restoration due to honour-related threats. The purpose of the present survey study was to further examine the attitudes of the Swedish healthcare professionals concerned towards young females requesting virginity certificates or hy...