Syria has banned women wearing the niqab from attending its universities. JERUSALEM, July 20, 2010 -- In a highly unusual move, the Syrian regime announced a nationwide, immediate ban on women wearing ...

More than one in three Muslim women have experienced racist abuse on public transport, according to a new report ...

BRUSSELS -- Since she started wearing a full Islamic veil six weeks ago, Selma said, she has been stared at, frowned at, muttered to, mocked as a "ghost" and forced by a policeman to lift her veil to ...

CAIRO, EGYPT - The origin of the debate could not be more intimate: what a woman chooses to wear before she leaves home. But the increasing popularity of the full Muslim face veil has set off an ...

The world's first ban on Islamic face veils took effect Monday in France, meaning that women may bare their breasts in Cannes but not cover their faces on the Champs-Elysees. Two veiled women were ...

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 ...

A university can offer counseling services to students who cover their faces with a niqab in a bid to limit extremism but it does not have the right to demand they take it off, according to Syafira ...

PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered legislation that would ban women from wearing Islamic veils that fully cover the face and body in public places, the government said today. It is ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch minority government plans to ban Muslim face veils such as burqas and other forms of clothing that cover the face from next year. The ban would make the Netherlands, ...

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 ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark’s ban on face veils in public took effect Wednesday, setting off protests and reigniting a debate over a law that rights groups say discriminates against Muslim women.

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 ...