A battle won? The prohibition of virginity testing in the Children's Bill

Agenda

Volumn 20, Issue 68, 2006, Pages 19-28

  Scorgie, Fiona ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children's Bill; children's rights; culture; legislation; virginity testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887873797     PISSN: 10130950     EISSN: 2158978X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2006.9674716     Document Type: Article

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