The niqab – usually referred to erroneously in Britain as the burqa – is a marginal trend across most Muslim traditions; both ...

Two Muslim women in Portugal who wear the hijab have spoken out against a ban on the burka, saying that it threatens women’s ...

More than 20 countries already ban or restrict burqas and niqabs (full-body and face coverings) worn by some Muslim women in ...

The French Senate in 2022 voted in favor of a bill to ban headscarves in sports competitions. The advocates of the legislation claim that headscarves, or hijab, symbolize Islamic radicalism, ...

LAGOS, May 4 (Reuters) - (This May 4 story has been corrected to change the name of Muslim face veil in the headline and paragraph 1, reword paragraph 1 to clarify that not all Muslim women wear ...

Police in Kyrgyzstan have issued hefty fines and official warnings to hundreds of women wearing the niqab, a face veil that is banned in the Muslim-majority country. At least 29 women were each fined ...

Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), stated that Muslim women should be allowed to access health services while wearing the hijab, but opposed the wearing of ...

Alongside countries such as France, Switzerland, Bulgaria, and Austria, Sri Lanka will become the latest nation to implement a ban on face veils in law, adding to the ever-growing conversation around ...

LONDON (Reuters) - When youth worker Sumreen Farooq was abused in a London street, the 18-year-old decided it was time to take a stand - and she started to wear a headscarf. Farooq is one of many ...

(The Conversation) — Imposing restrictions on women has been a way for many countries to demonstrate to the world what policies they want to pursue. (The Conversation) — The death of 22-year-old Mahsa ...