ALBAWABA - Pauline Hanson, the One Nation party leader, has sparked wide controversy in the Australian parliament after showing up wearing a burqa, a garment that is worn by some Muslim women to cover ...

The Netherlands’ ban on face-covering clothing, including the Islamic burqa and niqab, took effect on Thursday, but authorities say they are unwilling to enforce the controversial law. The new Dutch ...

Australia’s Parliament descended into turmoil Monday after right-wing populist Sen. Pauline Hanson entered the chamber wearing a burqa, triggering outrage from Muslim lawmakers and forcing proceedings ...

Opposition parties say it is a racist proposal. ‘It renders women invisible and annihilates them, reducing them to a curtain.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pauline Hanson of the anti-immigration One Nation party was seeking to introduce a bill in the Senate that would ban full face ...

Police say probe indicates the six were friends, a relative of one of the five Muslim girls accused under conversion Act says ...

Secularism is the religion of contemporary France. And the enforcers of that faith have a new target. “Today … we are confronted by certain Muslim women wearing the burqa, which covers and fully ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A new Dutch law took effect Thursday banning face-covering clothing — including the burqa and niqab worn by conservative Muslim women — on public transportation, in government ...

Women wearing a burqa wait for free bread in front of a bakery in Kabul. (Photo by Mohd Rasfan/AFP) Afghanistan’s Taliban government has ordered women to cover their faces in public in a return to a ...

The design for a burqa-style dress was never shown to the princess – and the outfit was never made, designer Elizabeth Emanuel tells PEOPLE Simon Perry is a writer and correspondent at PEOPLE. He has ...

Commenting on a purported video of the incident shared online, the police had said on January 16 that the Hindu girl had worn the burqa voluntarily.