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Azerbaijan officials have agreed to allow Soviet-era passports to be used as identification for upcoming elections in an attempt to avoid controversy over a headscarf ban for new ID photo cards. The government announced the change in policy after...

The leading Islamic party in Tajikistan has criticized the country's recent ban on Islamic headscarves in secular schools . The Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP) said the ban was unconstitutional and against the interests of...

Tajikistan's Education Ministry on Friday banned female Muslim students from wearing headscarves in secular schools. Education Minister Abdudjabor Rakhmonov said wearing the hajib, a traditional Muslim head covering, violates the country's constitution and education laws. Tajikistan is a secular...

The Dutch Equal Opportunities Commission will hear the nation's first case brought by a Muslim woman who was refused a job because she would not wear a headscarf . The Islamic College in Amsterdam refused to hire...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard rejected a proposal Monday that Muslim girls be forbidden from wearing headscarves in public schools, saying that banning headscarves only would be impractical and banning headscarves only would be inconsistent. The suggestion...

France's largest Muslim organization, the Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF) , has argued at a national conference of French Muslims that the state should reconsider its ban on Islamic headscarves [BBC Q&A on headscarf ban;...

The UK Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that a British high school decision to exclude from school a student wearing a jilbab, a traditional Muslim gown, was unlawful because the school denied 16-year-old Shabina Begum the right...

Denmark's High Court ruled Friday that Danish supermarket chain Dansk Supermarked Group has the right to ban employees from wearing religious headscarves, saying that the legislature "has weighed the right of an employer to demand a uniform...

The French Foreign Ministry has announced that two French journalists held hostage in Iraq since August and whose release was initially made contingent upon the French government not allowing its ban on religious headscarves and regalia in public schools...

Malaysia's second-highest court has upheld a teacher's decision to expel three Muslim boys for wearing turbans to school. The ruling overturns an earlier ruling that any school's ban on turbans violated the right to freedom of religion. The Court...