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Bangladesh rules women need not say if virgins on marriage certificates

Bangladeshi women

Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation Bangladesh’s top court has ruled that women need no longer declare if they are virgins on marriage certificates after a five-year legal battle by women’s rights groups trying to protect women’s privacy and potential humiliation. Marriage laws in the Muslim-majority country in South Asia had required a bride had to state […]