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 ...
When a woman wearing a blue burqa showed up near the Kabul airport three days after the Taliban fled the capital last November, no one gave her a second glance. But heads turned when she marched up to ...
Although the Koran refers to modest dress, it doesn’t command women to cover themselves from head to toe - AFP Photo/Mauricio Lima Mothin Ali, deputy leader of the Green Party, has accused Robert ...
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 ...
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Nehmatullah Yusefy's burqa sales have dropped 50 percent since the Taliban were toppled in 2001 and he says he will soon need to start stocking other styles of Islamic ...
A WOMAN who wore a full burqa into an Australian court should have been asked to show her face, a law lecturer says. Dr Nicky Jones of University of Southern Queensland said magistrates and judges ...
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 called for Australia to ban women from wearing the burqa after Italy joined several other nations in forbidding the religious covering. The One Nation leader took to social media on ...
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