The debate over the burqa is not just about religion, but about identity, security, and how we choose to live together as a ...

Tired of burkas that cover the face, urban women under the Taliban's 'gender apartheid' have adopted the abaya robe favoured in Gulf nations Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching ...

Fed up after yet another Dover council meeting was disrupted by activists on May 27, Mayor James Dodd declared that he will bar the public from future meetings and instead present them only online.

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women. Since their return to power in ...

Video shows far-right Senator Pauline Hanson walk into Parliament chambers wearing a burqa. The move drew anger and disgust from fellow senators.

What an image. No wonder it went viral. A woman in a burka strides across a parliamentary chamber, face and body entirely concealed, but legs – and high heels – very much on display. The faces you can ...

Pauline Hanson has never failed to make headlines. Now the leader of One Nation, the populist right wing party in Australia, she was first elected as an independent MP for Oxley in 1996 and co-founded ...

Efforts to pass laws banning full veils, burqa or chador, in some European countries — particularly France — have put the issue firmly on the agenda in many other Western countries. Left and feminist ...

Dover's council voted to suspend public meetings and said future sessions would be virtual. The move followed the latest disruption by critics of Mayor James Dodd, this time led by a man wearing a ...