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Taliban’s Mandatory Burqa in Herat Assaults Women’s Autonomy
19 Nov 2025 20:44 GMT
… entering hospitals without wearing a burqa. On November 10, 2025, authorities … women’s bodies to make women invisible. Afghan women and United Nations human rights … Taliban ordered women throughout the country to wear burqas or black hijabs …
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Mandated or banned? Either way, women lose in the veil debate
17 Nov 2025 13:35 GMT
… its nationwide ban on the burqa. Soon after, Portugal followed … Constitution and undermines minority rights.
Legal experts remain divided … Afghanistan, women are forced by law to wear the burqa. … promise to champion the rights of women in other countries, …
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The Taliban are erasing women from public life
13 Nov 2025 20:08 GMT
… body covering, such as a burqa, which covers the woman … the street without wearing a burqa, she may be publicly … if she cannot afford a burqa or properly wear one … government making tangible improvements in women’s rights.
Fourth, international organizations …
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Amnesty International Says Life for Women in Afghanistan Has Become ‘Unbearable
13 Nov 2025 16:07 GMT
… , November 13, the rights group said Afghan women have been erased from … by authorities have stripped women of their basic rights and dignity, severely … the wearing of the burqa mandatory, barring women without one from entering …
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Women in Herat Ordered to Wear Burqas to Access Hospitals and Public Institutions
08 Nov 2025 22:08 GMT
… officials have recently banned women without burqas from entering markets and … Taliban officials have ordered that women without burqas are not permitted to … caught carrying unveiled women will face punishment.
Women’s rights advocates have condemned …
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Bihar polls: Sambhal MP criticises EC decision to check burqa-clad women during voting
12 Oct 2025 14:14 GMT
… recent decision to check women wearing burqas during voting in Bihar … the idea that only veiled women should be subjected to … of society wears the burqa. Targeting veiled women like this is … excluded, how can their democratic rights be protected?”
On Special …
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'Namak Haram', 'Burqa' & 'Ghuspaithiya': The Hate Factor in Bihar Elections
24 Oct 2025 07:45 GMT
Another chief minister who entered the arena to make communal speeches was Uttarakhand's Pushkar Singh Dhami.
In Nawada's Warisaliganj, Dhami praised BJP's achievements such as abrogation of Article 370, abolition of Triple Talaq, the …
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Namaz in Pune fort raises debate on tolerance and Muslim women's rights
23 Oct 2025 04:23 GMT
Pune
A video of three women offering Namaz in the premises of Shaniwar Wada, a historic monument in Pune, Maharashtra, recently went viral on social media. This 18th-century palace-fort was the seat of the Peshwas, the prime ministers of the Maratha Empire …
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Robert Jenrick is right about a burqa ban
22 Oct 2025 11:35 GMT
… ’. An overwhelming number of women wearing the burqa around the world are … egalitarianism in the Muslim world, women’s rights have plummeted, with a … to subjugate Muslim women, with the burqa quite evidently erasing women’s identities …
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Burqa ban would only harden Britain’s religious divisions
21 Oct 2025 21:09 GMT
… he “probably would ban the burqa”, adding that there are “basic … .
In this context, the term “burqa” stands in for the niqab … Sarah Pochin called for a burqa ban, only for then-Chairman … niqab is an affront to women’s rights, and regard it as …