Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shiite Muslim women mourn during a ceremony commemorating the death anniversary of Fatimah bint Muhammad, also known as Fatimah Al ...

Over the past two decades, women and girls in Indonesia have faced unprecedented legal and social demands to wear clothing deemed Islamic as part of broader efforts to impose the rules of Sharia, or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Iranian morality police are back on the streets enforcing the country’s strict Islamic dress code, authorities said Sunday.

Last month, Iran launched an aggressive new crackdown on women who defy the country's strict Islamic dress code. Amnesty International dubbed it a war on women. The human rights group says tactics ...

(Jakarta) – Most of Indonesia’s provinces and dozens of cities and regencies impose discriminatory and abusive dress codes on women and girls, Human Rights Watch said today. The harmful impact of ...

Iran is trying to reimpose strict dress codes months after a wave of unrest in which women and girls removed their headscarves in protest following the death of a young woman who had been detained by ...

DUBAI, March 6 (Reuters) - Women violating the Islamic dress code will be punished, Iran's Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said on Monday according to the official IRNA news agency, ...

DUBAI — Iranian authorities on Sunday announced a new campaign to force women to wear the Islamic headscarf and morality police returned to the streets 10 months after the death of a woman in their ...

The UN Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) has expressed deep concern over what it says are recent arbitrary detentions and arrests of Afghan women and girls because of alleged violations of the ...

The Iranian morality police are back on the streets enforcing the country’s strict Islamic dress code, authorities said Sunday. During nationwide anti-government protests last year, the morality ...