Unlike at the male-dominated Al-Fatah school, where women and girls as young as five are required to wear the niqab, thousands of mainly urban, middle-class women have made that choice for themselves.

I had my Rumpole moment at the High Court on Friday. It fell to your correspondent to make an application to the judge to relax an order restricting press reporting of a major case. Unfortunately ...

Unlike at the male-dominated Al Fatah school, where women and girls as young as 5 are required to wear the niqab, thousands of mainly urban, middle-class women have made that choice for themselves.

Teenage girl quits school in row over veil: Pupil, 16, who started wearing niqab moves to complete her A-Levels because she is too ‘upset, hurt and angry’ to go back ...

A 10-year-old girl, a second generation immigrant, showed up at school in Pordenone dressed in the niqab, one of the most fundamentalist veils, which covers the woman's entire body, leaving only a ...

The decision to ban the girl, who studied for her GCSEs at the school, from using a niqab prompted an angry reaction from some fellow students, with one starting an online petition that has been ...

Earlier this year, the nation's president stated, “Rather than wearing face-concealing black robes, it’s much better to wear ...

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(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 4 - Teachers at a high school in the northeastern town of Monfalcone near Trieste privately lift the niqab ...

Taliban retake Afghanistan after 20 years. During that period, girls and women were mostly excluded from education because of rules regarding same-sex classrooms and the insistence they had to be ...