Contrary to some misconceptions, many women who wear the niqab do so out of their own free will. For these women, the niqab ...

Women attending private universities in Afghanistan must wear an abaya robe and niqab covering most of the face, the Taliban have ordered, and classes must be segregated by sex - or at least ...

The female staff are required to handle the process with due consideration of the students’ personal freedom to wear the clothing garments and any privacy concerns, DU says ...

Should it include the niqab and jilbab? Or should it be a complete ... political Islam continues to launch campaigns encouraging women to wear hijab, reinforcing its role as a mechanism of control.

For instance, it is perfectly appropriate for someone to wear a headscarf (hijab, niqab or burka), turban, skullcap or other customary religious headdress in place of the academic cap (or, in some ...

A police force reissued a mugshot of a convicted Islamic State (IS) terrorist after she complained she was not wearing a niqab in it. Farishta Jami, 36, was found guilty of terrorism offences on ...