World Hijab Day is celebrated annually on February 1st to raise awareness about hijab and dismantle Islamophobia. The hijab ...

Iran’s parliament on Wednesday passed draconian new legislation imposing much harsher penalties on women who breach hijab rules, days after the one-year anniversary of mass protests sparked by the ...

A hijab is a veil worn by certain Muslim women in the presence of any male outside of their immediate family. Muslim women from 140 countries worldwide celebrate world Hijab Day on 1 February each ...

Iran is trying to reimpose strict dress codes months after a wave of unrest in which women and girls removed their headscarves in protest following the death of a young woman who had been detained by ...

Wania Tayyab, 15, remembers the first time she wore the hijab, on a trip to Five Below when she was 12 or 13. “My mom said, ‘You’re growing, why don’t you try wearing hijab?’” Tayyab says she was ...

The Home Office has invited staff to celebrate 'World Hijab Day' even though its own asylum guidance claims being forced to adhere to religious dress codes is 'persecution'. Civil servants have been ...

“The concern of the UNAMA for women is incorrect. The concern of the UNAMA about the mistreatment of women in Afghanistan regarding their hijab, is incorrect. Afghan women wear hijab on their own, ...

The Taliban have arrested women in Afghanistan for wearing “bad hijab” for the first time since coming to power, according to voice notes received Thursday by the AP from a spokesperson from the ...

Iran made it mandatory for women to obey the Islamic dress code shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the country's shah. Police in Iran announced a new crackdown Saturday on women ...

ALBAWABA - A few days after the story of the Iranian student Ahou Daryae, who stripped to underwear after being harassed by university morality police over her hijab, a schoolgirl in Iran jumped to ...

Weeks after a university student stripped on campus in Iran for refusing to wear the hijab, causing a stir in the Islamic Republic. According to various media reports Iran is working towards ...