Pauline Hanson wore a burka in the Senate chamber in Canberra - Mick Tsikas/AAP Australian right-wing politician Pauline Hanson was suspended from the Senate on Tuesday after donning a burka in the ...

Tired of burkas that cover the face, urban women under the Taliban's 'gender apartheid' have adopted the abaya robe favoured in Gulf nations Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women. Since their return to power in ...

Nearly three years after the Taliban’s resurgence in Afghanistan, the regime’s oppressive actions against women continue unabated. In a recent broadcast reminiscent of ISIS tactics, the Taliban’s ...

To mark International Women's Day, a human rights defender has anonymously shared her story.

It’s hard to believe that women who are hidden under a burqa retain a sense of style, but they do. This year’s trendy color for burqas is a pale sky blue. A few years back it was a coppery brown. The ...

There’s a burqa burglar is on the loose in the Big Apple. The NYPD is on the lookout for a burqa-wearing bandit who broke into a Queens home last week and made off with a cache of jewelry — then ...

Archbishop Joan Planellas i Barnosell of Tarragona. Image credit: Conferencia Episcopal Española c/o:José Cruz – https://www.flickr.com/photos/50702712@N05 ...

In stop-start efforts since November, Taliban officials have cracked down on women and girls in the western city of Herat who have been ignoring the hardline group's rules by showing their faces.

A burka ban has been introduced in two towns in Costa del Sol, Spain. Women wearing burkas will no longer be allowed to enter municipal buildings in the towns of Rincon de la Victoria and Alhaurin el ...