The PP Balears party has submitted a proposal to the Balearic Parliament to ban the full-face veil, arguing that both the ...

The Danish government is to propose to extend the country's ban on full-face veils in public places to schools and ...

Discussions around face coverings such as the burka have been reignited after a Reform UK MP's question in parliament. (Getty) Employers should be able to decide if their staff can wear burkas in the ...

It wasn’t surprising to hear newly elected Reform MP Sarah Pochin call for a ban on the burqa – such calls resurface from time to time. What was surprising, however, was her decision to use her very ...

The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan ordered female patients, caretakers and staff to wear a burka – a full Islamic veil - to enter public health facilities in the western city of Herat, medical ...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, among the first to critcise his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar over the hijab ...

The French National Assembly has voted 335 to 1, with 241 members abstaining, to publicly ban the face veil worn by many Muslim women in the country. The ban will now go to the upper chamber of ...

ALGIERS/RABAT (Reuters) - A French proposal to ban full face veils has stoked debate in Europe and also provoked strong reactions across the Mediterranean in North Africa, where many of France's ...

MSF say women have been turned away from hospitals in one Afghan city if not wearing a burka [Getty Images] The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan ordered female patients, caretakers and staff to wear ...