Fifty-one percent said they are "very worried" or "somewhat worried" that women wearing the hijab are treated poorly, according to the poll. A simple headscarf generally used by women to hide the ...

NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel said women's issues are "one of the most sensitive issues and one of the ...

A lot of Muslim girls and women in the Ghent area are struggling to find a school for next school year the Association of ...

GENEVA: Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's mandatory headscarf in public, even as hard-liners push for harsher ...

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One week after the fatal shootings in two mosques, women in Christchurch have been demonstrating their support for Muslim women. Tourists are returning home after a deadly gun attack killed 26 ...

but I’m so bored of media depictions of women in headscarves,” she explains. “It’s either, ‘Oh, look at this terribly oppressed woman’, or, ‘Oh, how exciting, woman in headscarf can ...

“Two and a half years after the protests began in September 2022, women and girls in Iran continue to face systematic discrimination, in law and in practice, that permeates all aspects of their ...