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UK To Unveil 'World's First' Sculpture Celebrating Women Who Wear Hijab
The artwork, called 'Strength of the Hijab',depicts a Muslim woman wearing a hijab with the words ''it is a woman's right to be loved and respected whatever she chooses to wear'' inscribed across its base.
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Old Video Shows Former Egypt President Mocking Hijab Rule
Massive protests have been going on in Iran over the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the morality police for not wearing a hijab (headscarf) in a proper way.
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UN Committee Slams France Over School Headscarf Ban
France violated an international rights treaty when it banned a woman from wearing a headscarf while she studied at a school, a UN committee has ruled.
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Gasps As Saudi Woman, 33, Walks Through Mall Without Customary Abaya
Her high heels clacking on marble tiles, a defiant Saudi woman turned heads and drew gasps as she strutted through a Riyadh mall -- without a body-shrouding abaya. The billowy over-garment, usually all-black, is customary public wear for women in the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom, where it is widely seen as a symbol of piety.
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Muslim Woman Assaulted, Hijab Pulled Off At London Tube Station
A Muslim woman's hijab was pulled off allegedly by a man in a vicious assault in London, amid a spike in hate crime incidents following a series of terror attacks by terrorists in the UK.
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Woman In Hijab, Man Doing Yoga. New Emojis Have The Internet All Fired Up
On World Emoji Day, July 17, Apple unveiled a slew of emojis that include a woman in a hijab or headscarf, a woman breastfeeding her child and a man meditating while seated in padmasana or the cross-legged yoga pose.
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Energy Giant Shell Removes Malaysian Woman Cutouts Over Groping Pictures
Energy giant Shell said it is removing life-sized cutouts of a Malaysian woman in a headscarf from its petrol stations in the Muslim-majority country after photos of men groping the figure started circulating online.
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What Melania Trump Wore: First Lady's Saudi Style A Big Deal
What women wear can often be the focus of critique and controversy -- all the more so when the woman is an ex-model, married to the US president and disembarking in Saudi Arabia.
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A Controversy At PM Modi's Event Over A Headscarf For Woman Sarpanch
A Muslim woman was allegedly forced to remove her headscarf at an event attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Gujarat today. Shaharban Saidalavi was part of a delegation from Kerala and was invited to the event held in Gandhinagar meant to felicitate women achievers on the occasion of the International Women's Day. The police denied the alleg...
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Man Allegedly Tries To Rip Off Muslim Woman's Hijab At Eatery In UK: Report
A hijab-clad British woman eating at a London fish and chips shop was attacked by a fellow diner who tried to rip off her headscarf and accused her of "killing people", according to a report.
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She Was Fired For Wearing Headscarf. Now, Court Rules Against Swiss Company
A Swiss court has ruled against a company that fired a longtime employee after she began wearing the Muslim headscarf, marking one of the first such rulings in Switzerland, media reported Sunday.
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UK Police Seek Help On 'Racially Motivated' Attack On Muslim Woman
London police are asking for help finding two men who pulled off the headscarf of a Muslim woman in what is being called a racially-motivated attack.
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There Is No Hijab Emoji, So A 15-Year-Old Student Is Trying To Change That
When Rayouf Alhumedhi's friends wanted to identify themselves to one another in a WhatsApp group chat, they didn't rely on their names. Instead, each friend used an emoji. "My friends, who don't wear the headscarf, they found something." Alhumedhi said. "For me? I had to opt to not use an image of a woman wearing a headscarf. Because there isn't on...
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In Suspected Hate Crime, Muslim Woman In Headscarf Stabbed To Death In US
In a suspected case of hate crime, a 60-year-old Muslim woman wearing a headscarf was brutally stabbed to death by unknown persons in New York, nearly two weeks after a Bangladeshi-origin imam of a mosque and his associate were killed.
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'Waste Of Time' Unless You Remove Hijab, Woman Told In Interview
A 25-year-old Muslim girl in New Zealand was left embarrassed after she applied for a job at a jewellery shop and was told it was a "waste of time" unless she removed her hijab.
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UK To Unveil 'World's First' Sculpture Celebrating Women Who Wear Hijab
The artwork, called 'Strength of the Hijab',depicts a Muslim woman wearing a hijab with the words ''it is a woman's right to be loved and respected whatever she chooses to wear'' inscribed across its base.
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Old Video Shows Former Egypt President Mocking Hijab Rule
Massive protests have been going on in Iran over the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the morality police for not wearing a hijab (headscarf) in a proper way.
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UN Committee Slams France Over School Headscarf Ban
France violated an international rights treaty when it banned a woman from wearing a headscarf while she studied at a school, a UN committee has ruled.
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Gasps As Saudi Woman, 33, Walks Through Mall Without Customary Abaya
Her high heels clacking on marble tiles, a defiant Saudi woman turned heads and drew gasps as she strutted through a Riyadh mall -- without a body-shrouding abaya. The billowy over-garment, usually all-black, is customary public wear for women in the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom, where it is widely seen as a symbol of piety.
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Muslim Woman Assaulted, Hijab Pulled Off At London Tube Station
A Muslim woman's hijab was pulled off allegedly by a man in a vicious assault in London, amid a spike in hate crime incidents following a series of terror attacks by terrorists in the UK.
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Woman In Hijab, Man Doing Yoga. New Emojis Have The Internet All Fired Up
On World Emoji Day, July 17, Apple unveiled a slew of emojis that include a woman in a hijab or headscarf, a woman breastfeeding her child and a man meditating while seated in padmasana or the cross-legged yoga pose.
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Energy Giant Shell Removes Malaysian Woman Cutouts Over Groping Pictures
Energy giant Shell said it is removing life-sized cutouts of a Malaysian woman in a headscarf from its petrol stations in the Muslim-majority country after photos of men groping the figure started circulating online.
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What Melania Trump Wore: First Lady's Saudi Style A Big Deal
What women wear can often be the focus of critique and controversy -- all the more so when the woman is an ex-model, married to the US president and disembarking in Saudi Arabia.
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A Controversy At PM Modi's Event Over A Headscarf For Woman Sarpanch
A Muslim woman was allegedly forced to remove her headscarf at an event attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Gujarat today. Shaharban Saidalavi was part of a delegation from Kerala and was invited to the event held in Gandhinagar meant to felicitate women achievers on the occasion of the International Women's Day. The police denied the alleg...
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Man Allegedly Tries To Rip Off Muslim Woman's Hijab At Eatery In UK: Report
A hijab-clad British woman eating at a London fish and chips shop was attacked by a fellow diner who tried to rip off her headscarf and accused her of "killing people", according to a report.
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She Was Fired For Wearing Headscarf. Now, Court Rules Against Swiss Company
A Swiss court has ruled against a company that fired a longtime employee after she began wearing the Muslim headscarf, marking one of the first such rulings in Switzerland, media reported Sunday.
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UK Police Seek Help On 'Racially Motivated' Attack On Muslim Woman
London police are asking for help finding two men who pulled off the headscarf of a Muslim woman in what is being called a racially-motivated attack.
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There Is No Hijab Emoji, So A 15-Year-Old Student Is Trying To Change That
When Rayouf Alhumedhi's friends wanted to identify themselves to one another in a WhatsApp group chat, they didn't rely on their names. Instead, each friend used an emoji. "My friends, who don't wear the headscarf, they found something." Alhumedhi said. "For me? I had to opt to not use an image of a woman wearing a headscarf. Because there isn't on...
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In Suspected Hate Crime, Muslim Woman In Headscarf Stabbed To Death In US
In a suspected case of hate crime, a 60-year-old Muslim woman wearing a headscarf was brutally stabbed to death by unknown persons in New York, nearly two weeks after a Bangladeshi-origin imam of a mosque and his associate were killed.
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'Waste Of Time' Unless You Remove Hijab, Woman Told In Interview
A 25-year-old Muslim girl in New Zealand was left embarrassed after she applied for a job at a jewellery shop and was told it was a "waste of time" unless she removed her hijab.
