CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Muslim women in Australia’s most populous state will have to remove veils to have their signatures officially witnessed under the latest laws giving New South Wales ...

[JURIST] A top Pakistani judge has forbidden female lawyers to wear the Muslim hijab [III&E backgrounder; JURIST news archive] (veil) in his courtroom, according to the Saturday edition of Pakistan's ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France's parliament is likely to call in a resolution for a ban on Muslim face veils in public but take longer to turn that policy into law, deputies said on Thursday. A ...

PARIS -- A parliamentary panel that wants Muslim women to stop veiling their faces recommended Tuesday that France ban such garb in public facilities, including hospitals and mass transit, and refuse ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A man was arrested last Friday on hate crime charges for allegedly threatening a woman wearing a traditional Muslim veil in San Francisco. Police responded to a report of a man ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Students in England could be banned from wearing full-face Muslim veils for security or educational reasons under government guidelines to be published on Tuesday, officials said.

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:21:26 GMT — PARIS (AP) " The French Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill banning the burqa-style Islamic veil on public streets and other places, a measure that affects ...

GARY, Ind. (KRON) — A video posted to Facebook shows an Indiana woman being told to leave a store because of her Muslim face veil. Sarah Safi says she was discriminated against at a Family Dollar ...

Some unidentified soldiers on Friday forcefully removed the veil, popularly referred to as Niqab, from a Muslim woman at Meran Area of Lagos.‎ It was gathered the woman was going peacefully when two ...

Two women detained for wearing Islamic veils on day ban takes effect. April 11, 2011— -- Muslim women defied France's new ban on full-face veils today and two protesters were arrested outside ...

The law takes effect from Wednesday, August 1, 2018 and any offender will be fined 1,000 kroner. The Danish lawmakers on Thursday, May 31, 2018, approved the law after 75 lawmakers out of 105 voted in ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Islamic clerics in Sri Lanka are asking Muslim women to continue to avoid wearing face veils until the government clarifies whether they can wear them again now that ...