Women in burkas receiving food aid in Kandahar last month Afghan women will have to wear the Islamic face veil for the first time in decades under a decree passed by the country's ruling Taliban ...

It was a ruling in a case brought by two women who wanted to wear the niqab veil, which covers all but the eyes. Belgium banned the wearing of partial or total face veils in public in 2011.

The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court’s decision to disallow a female Muslim lawyer from arguing in court because she was ...

SRINAGAR: The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that women advocates ... right to appear with face covered, adding the court can’t force her to remove the veil.

This article explains what it means for women who CHOOSE to wear the niqab! The niqab, a face-covering veil worn by some ...

A police union says three Saudi women who refused to remove their face veils at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport have been barred entry to France. A 2011 French law bans people from wearing Islamic ...

This view is the most common today among advocates of women’s covering, though a smaller number also recommend a face-veil (niqab) and gloves. However, despite general agreement today that this view ...

Women in Iran could now face the death penalty or years behind bars if they break new morality laws. The new laws, which were passed by the hardline Iranian parliament earlier this month ...

[Getty Images] Somali police said Tuesday they have confiscated hundreds of face veils from women in a major city as they enforced a long-standing ban, with witnesses saying the niqabs were then ...

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