The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has expressed concern about the Taliban's arrest of women and girls for alleged ...

UNAMA raised concern over the arrest of many women and girls in Kabul from July 16-19 for allegedly violating the Taliban’s ...

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 ...

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi vowed Wednesday that the Islamic republic 's mandatory dress code, including laws requiring women to wear the hijab, or headscarf, would be enforced as a growing ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have arrested women in the Afghan capital for wearing “bad hijab,” a spokesman at the country’s Vice and Virtue Ministry said Thursday. It’s the ...

A Chembur college in Mumbai is implementing a dress code for students of all communities, as stated in the Bombay High Court. The court heard a petition by students against the ban on burqa, hijab ...

Last fall, Iran's parliament approved a new hijab and chastity law that would impose even tougher punishments on women violating dress codes: steeper fines and prison sentences of up to 15 years.

Iran's move comes amid protests since the death of a woman forcibly taken into custody after being accused of violating the Islamic dress code.

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 ...

A Taliban spokesman says authorities have arrested women in the Afghan capital Kabul for wearing “bad hijab.”.