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Reporting on niqab from news outlets worldwide, summarised with a link to the original. Legislation, court rulings, research and public debate.
27 April 2021
Sri Lanka moves to ban the burqa
Cabinet approved a ban on face coverings in April 2021, two years after the Easter bombings, alongside the closure of over a thousand Islamic schools. Human Rights Watch and the ICJ called it discriminatory.
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