{"id":31308,"date":"2021-04-23T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/23\/victims-in-south-asia-still-face-vaginal-tests-report-finds"},"modified":"2021-04-23T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:00:01","slug":"rape-victims-in-south-asia-still-face-vaginal-tests-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31308","title":{"rendered":"Rape victims in south Asia still face vaginal tests, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unscientific \u2018morality\u2019 examination linked to low conviction rates and violates women\u2019s rights, says Equality Now<\/p>\n<p>Physical vaginal tests are still used to determine whether women and girls have been raped in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>The practice remains widespread in all three countries and some courts refer to the test in judgments, despite it having no scientific basis and being banned in India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/23\/victims-in-south-asia-still-face-vaginal-tests-report-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unscientific \u2018morality\u2019 examination linked to low conviction rates and violates women\u2019s rights, says Equality NowPhysical vaginal tests are still used to determine whether women and girls have been raped in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, according to a ne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,59,53,62,86,78,241,242,440,79,61,674,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-india","category-law","category-life-and-style","category-nepal","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-sexual-violence","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31309,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31308\/revisions\/31309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}