Belgian doctors ask them to finish with virginity tests in the world

The February 16 demonstration is the result of a World Health Organization (WHO) October 2018 statement, alongside the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Man and UN Women, which aims to: terminate these certificates.

Evidence usually seeks to testify to the virginity of a woman before marriage, often for religious reasons.

WHO emphasizes that The practice has been "documented" in Afghanistan, Brazil, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, South Africa, Sri Lanka Lanka, Swaziland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe.

In Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden were also carried out requests for virginity tests.

The Belgian National Council considers that these tests constitute "a medical act useless for health, without scientific relevance and with potentially serious consequences for the well-being of the patient".

"They can be experienced as aggression" and "they involve discrimination between women and men, whose badual relations are beyond any evaluation of this type," he adds.

The Order also points out that "third parties often request these examinations regardless of the privacy and the right to privacy of the data subject".

Therefore, "the National Council of the Medical Association supports the statement of the WHO" and "considers that there is no justification to respond to a request for drafting". a certificate of virginity ".

These requests should be differentiated from "forensic examination of patients who are victims of badual badault or rape," they said.