A growing number of Muslim-majority countries are imposing restrictions on the wearing of the hijab and igniting heated ...

The hijab may soon be banned from all sports competitions in France, as the lower house of parliament is due to vote on a bill widely condemned by Muslim athletes and human rights advocates as ...

Women in Kyrgyzstan are banned from wearing niqabs as the country claims they could be “attackers in disguise”. The Muslim country’s government has backed plans to fine anyone wearing the garment ...

In both instances, the students had come to the centres to write the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (CET) 2025, which ...

Supporters of the women's soccer team "Les Hijabeuses" play soccer in front of the city hall in Lille as part of a protest as the French Senate examines a bill featuring a controversial hijab ban ...

Iranian ‘My Favourite Cake’ Filmmakers Receive Suspended Jail Sentence & Fines For Showing Actress Without Hijab ...

Football, the country's most prominent sport, enforces a ban on the hijab, while others, including athletics and handball, allow it. The fate of the bill will determine whether this patchwork of ...

In the UK, where there is no ban on the hijab for girls and women in public institutions including schools, we see an increasing number of successful, popular and respected public figures and ...

A maths teacher has avoided a classroom ban despite a disciplinary tribunal finding he asked a Muslim pupil if she had "a bomb" under her hijab headdress. Mark Holland, a former teacher at Great ...