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Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Virtue and education
Reuters reports:
(Link via email from reader Ravi Srinivas.)
A Ugandan member of parliament has pledged to reward girls for their chastity by paying their university fees if they are virgins when they leave school, a local newspaper said on Wednesday.I hope RR Patil isn't reading this. He'll get ideas.
Bbaale County MP Sulaiman Madada said any girl in his district who wanted to take part in the scheme aimed at promoting girls' education would be given a gynecological examination by health workers to check they were virgins.
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The MP did not extend his offer to young men.
(Link via email from reader Ravi Srinivas.)
