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

Around the world, Muslim girls who wear hijabs are experiencing unique forms and heightened rates of gender and race-based violence.

A substitute teacher at a Bronx elementary school was fired after ripping the hijab off an 8-year-old girl’s head because she refused to get out of his chair, cops said. Oghenetega Edah, 31, … ...

The Indian teenagers denied schooling and facing death threats because they wore a hijab India’s Supreme Court is set to rule on an explosive case that has seen six Muslim teenagers banned from ...

A girl wearing a hijab was allegedly assaulted at Glenside Middle School in Glendale Heights, a suburb of Chicago. Police are investigating the incident.

Bengaluru, India – For four days a group of 28 Muslim girls stood in protest in front of the Junior Pre-University college in the Karnataka state after they were denied entry for wearing hijab ...

Disturbing video has emerged of an Iranian girl being beaten by authorities after she removed her hijab – amid demonstrations across the country since a young woman died after being arrested for ...

A 40-year-old hatemonger was busted Monday for mocking a teen girl and ripping the hijab off her head in Midtown, police said.

Organization believes attack on girl at school in Chicago's west suburbs was hate crime GLENDALE HEIGHTS, Ill. (CBS) -- Calls have been mounting for a hate crime investigation after a student was ...

The Taliban strictly enforce the Islamic dress code. Independent sources report arrests and mistreatment of women and girls for hijab violations.

When her high school banned the hijab, Ayesha Shifa sued. Her case went to India's Supreme Court. A verdict, expected soon, could redefine what secularism means in the world's largest democracy.

The unfortunate fallout of the hijab restriction, the judge said, would be that we would have denied education to a girl child. “A girl child for whom it is still not easy to reach her school gate.