One year into the pandemic, protective face masks have come to signify different things for different groups of people. At the same time, racialized perceptions related to masks have put an additional ...

The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday upheld a Belgian ban on wearing the full-face niqab veil in public. The court ruled that the restriction sought to guarantee social cohesion, the ...

Women in Kyrgyzstan will now face fines for wearing the full-body niqab, under a January ban that has now received the backing of the country's top Islamic authority. Calling the niqab "alien to our ...

A new dress code for female civil servants in Indonesia’s Central Lombok regency should concern all Indonesians. Women all over Central Lombok started purchasing niqabs. On July 3, for the first time, ...

One year into the pandemic, protective face masks have come to signify different things for different groups of people. At the same time, racialized perceptions related to masks have put an additional ...