Legislation around full-face veils has grown increasingly common in Europe, particularly in the past three years. Six countries have now passed nationwide laws that partially or fully ban face ...

France’s top legal authority, the Constitutional Council, on Thursday approved a law banning full-face veils in public. The council said that the law was constitutional, but that it could not be ...

Austria became the latest European country to ban the full-face veil on Tuesday, with the legislation supported by both of the country's ruling parties. "Starting in October, police will be ...

Donna Gehrke-White talked about her book [The Face Behind the Veil: The Extraordinary Lives of Muslim Women in America], published by Citadel. She was interviewed on the BookTV Bus while at the ...

Quebec’s passage of a law banning the wearing of full-face veils is sparking anger among Muslims in Canada, who claim the measure represents “ugly identity politics” from a government ...

Legislation banning full-face Muslim veils in public spaces has gone into effect in Austria. The government says the law, which says faces must be visible from the hairline to the chin, is about ...

Zainab bint Younis is a young, muslim blogger who lives near Vancouver and describes herself as goth steam-punk. She also wears a niqab, the full face veil with a narrow slit at the eyes. This ...

The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a ban on wearing burqas and other full-face veils in public in Belgium.. Two women challenged the ban, which has been in place since 2011, and their ...

A Muslim woman standing trial in London has been ordered to remove her full-face veil to present evidence but will be permitted to wear it during the remainder of the proceedings. The 22-year-old w… ...

In the Channel 4 News/ComRes poll, three-quarters of people said they are unsure of how to relate to women wearing the full face veil, and more than half think it is demeaning to people who wear it.

Two women protesting France's new ban on Islamic face veils have been arrested after taking part in a demonstration in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The law, which was approved by ...