Sentence examples for against virginity from inspiring English sources

Instead, they have pushed back strongly against virginity testing.

Nihayatul Wafiroh, MP and member of Indonesian Islamic organisation Nahdlatul Ulama, has spoken out against virginity tests.

In previous decades they demonstrated against virginity tests for Asian women, carried out to check if they were really brides-to-be.

But she did say: "You could lost your virginity because of accidents, or being raped, and because of these [circumstances] women cannot pursue their dreams to become police?" Many Indonesians are campaigning against virginity tests through social media with the hashtags #TolakTesKeperawanan and #TesKeperawanan.

Stop The V-Ritual are in the process of drafting a petition against virginity tests to the Supreme Court of India.

"Those who oppose us know we have the support of the media and political leaders and that we are planning legal action against virginity tests," explains Vivek.

A6 African Culture and Equal Rights A ban against traditional virginity tests in South Africa, assailed as unscientific and emotionally searing, provide an example of how sub-Saharan Africa is slowly, but inexorably, enshrining into law basic protections that have long been denied women.

"It was through the group that I could for the first time express my thoughts against the virginity tests with members of my community," says Tamaichikar.

She lists the military's mistakes: the use of live ammunition against civilians; the virginity tests; the 2011 Maspero protests, when the Army and security forces killed twenty-eight people.

And Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews flips a gender stereotype by having a male title character who protects his virginity against female seducers as he overcomes obstacles to be with his true love.

The candidates were also asked about the ruling military junta and the litany of abuses conducted by them, including the infamous virginity tests against female protesters.