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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

A 23-year-old Burnley woman who started wearing a niqab two years ago says it's "empowering" - even though she's been told ...

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 ...

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

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A 12-year-old schoolgirl has failed in an attempted legal challenge to her school's ban on a full-face veil. Mr Justice Silber had been told that the girl's three older sisters had attended the same ...

The latest ban places Kazakhstan alongside other Central Asian countries that have imposed similar restrictions amid concerns ...

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