Some women wear a headscarf to cover their head and hair, while others wear a burka or niqab, which also covers ... cover the face in public. The word hijab describes the act of covering up ...

Kyrgyzstan has outlawed the all-covering Islamic niqab. Authorities insists the ban does not extend to the hijab, the Islamic ...

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"Banning the burqa is a form of discrimination against a group of women. Wearing the hijab or niqab or removing them is a choice that belongs to women and to women alone, to wear whatever they ...

A bus company has apologised after a driver told a woman to remove her niqab face veil. The woman was travelling from Easton to Bristol city centre when the driver told her "this world is ...

a plea challenging the ban imposed by Mumbai-based Chembur Trombay Education Society’s N G Acharya and D K Marathe College on ...

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on the plea filed by nine girls from a college in Mumbai challenging a ban on hijab, burqa, and niqab in the classroom. Nine second and third ...

While the Sri Lankan government’s ban stopped short of naming the niqab, burqa or the hijab, the ban is being seen as a crackdown on the country’s Muslim community and has divided opinion in ...