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Islamic veil

June 2024

  • Narges Mohammadi

    Trial of jailed Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi opens in her absence

    Peace prize winner and women’s rights activist is refusing to attend hearings in Tehran

August 2023

  • A man wide awake in bed

    Brief letters
    Can’t sleep? Here’s a world in your ear

  • A doll, called Hijarbie, dressed in pink dress and hijab

    Move over Barbie, Hijarbie is back – to celebrate Muslim fashion and culture

February 2023

  • Rabina Khan

    For many women, wearing a hijab is not a matter of choice

  • Rabina Khan

    I proudly wear a hijab. Forget the stereotypes – it’s a sign of style and strength

    Rabina Khan

November 2022

  • Protesters wave Iranian flags and stand in an open space next to a fountain in London

    I am free while the women of Iran are not afforded the same luxury – but now they are spearheading a revolution

    Setareh Vaziri
    There should be no mistake about what this fight is for. It is a fight against a theocratic regime which denies the most basic human rights

October 2022

  • A protester in Tehran sets her veil on fire in clashes with police.

    Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran: ‘Women in Iran have discovered their power and decided to use it’

    The demonstrations across Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, arrested for failing to wear her hijab correctly, are a turning point, no matter the outcome

February 2022

  • Muslim women protest against Hijab with candle march rally, Kolkata, West Bengal, India - 11 Feb 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Rahul Sadhukhan/Pacific Press/REX/Shutterstock (12801274u) A woman take to the street and held a candle light protest against Karnataka hijab ban in educational institutions. Muslim women protest against Hijab with candle march rally, Kolkata, West Bengal, India - 11 Feb 2022

    I don’t have to choose between my hijab and going to school, but my sisters aren’t so lucky

    Anhaar Kareem
    As a 14-year-old Australian, I urge you to stand in solidarity with me against policymakers in France and India, where they are oppressing Muslim women
  • Muslim students have argued that their right to freedom of religion is being violated.

    Violent clashes over hijab ban in southern India force schools to close

    Unrest triggered when Karnataka state came down in favour of rightwing Hindu demands for headscarf ban
  • Universities reopening in Afghanistan.

    Rights and freedom
    Afghan universities reopen with strict rules for female students

    Women required to attend separate classes and follow dress code at facilities in Kandahar and Helmand as they restart classes for first time since Taliban takeover

November 2021

  • Najah Onn

    ‘I lost part of my identity to fit in’: women fight to change Australia’s workwear norms

    For women of colour working in Stem fields, conforming often feels like cultural erasure. Now a group of female scientists are working to reprogram the dress code

March 2021

  • Woman in burqa walking down a street in Colombo, Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka to ban burqa and close 1,000 Islamic schools

  • People protest against Switzerland’s ban on wearing a full face veil in public plans, which has been approved in a national referendum

    Switzerland to ban wearing of burqa and niqab in public places

January 2021

  • Turkey. Istanbul. 2018. A plane flies low over students at a picnic during the weekend.

    The big picture
    The big picture: Sabiha Çimen's picnicking schoolgirls

    The Turkish photographer’s shot of three students from a religious boarding school seeks to add nuance to traditional depictions of women in hijab

January 2020

  • Sebastian Kurz and Werner Kogler

    Austria’s Green party will pay a high price for its dangerous alliance with the right

    Benjamin Opratko
  • The chancellor, Sebastian Kurz (left), of the conservative ÖVP with the Green leader, Werner Kogler.

    Austria’s new coalition agrees to extend school headscarf ban

December 2019

  • Boris Johnson on ITV’s This Morning

    Boris Johnson vows to ban all-out strikes on public transport

  • Boris Johnson apologises for likening Muslim women wearing burqas to letterboxes – video

September 2019

  • Jean-Michel Blanquer

    French education minister reignites row over Muslim headscarf

  • MOD Markit @Annette Ruzicka - 082

    Melbourne fashion week's first modest runway show – in pictures

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