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The 26-year-old grandmaster moved to Spain after she took part in a chess championships in Kazakhstan in late December 2022 without an headscarf. Spain has granted citizenship to Iranian chess player who took part in a chess championship…

By Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia: When Nouhaila Benzina steps onto the field for Morocco’s first match of the Women’s World Cup against Germany, she will make history — and not just as a player for the first…

A group of Iranian students, incensed at rules imposed on June 12 requiring female students to wear a maqna’a – a conservative Islamic headscarf in black that covers the head, neck and shoulders – began a sit-in in protest.…

Issued on: 21/02/2023 - 17:27 In Iran, women are daring to go out without their headscarves in public places, streets, cafes, banks and even airports. For five months,…

Issued on: 04/12/2022 - 08:47 Iran said Saturday it is reviewing a decades-old law that requires women to cover their heads, as it struggles to quell more than two months of…

By Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea: An Iranian female competitive climber left South Korea on Tuesday after competing at an event in which she climbed without her nation’s mandatory headscarf covering,…

Issued on: 19/09/2022 - 18:07 The death of young woman Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s so-called "morality police" in September has enraged people across the…

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has sought to soften a campaign pledge to ban women from wearing the Islamic headscarf in public ahead of a run-off round of voting against Emmanuel Macron on Sunday.The shift…

BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday dismissed petitions filed by a section of Muslim students from the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi, seeking permission to wear Hijab inside the classroom. The prescription of…

By AFP PARIS: France's gender equality minister threw her support on Thursday behind Muslim women footballers who are seeking to overturn a ban on players wearing headscarves on the pitch.  Rules set by the French…