The report comes after women were left laying in rubble for hours, waiting for female rescuers following an earthquake.

ALGIERS/RABAT (Reuters) - A French proposal to ban full face veils has stoked debate in Europe and also provoked strong reactions across the Mediterranean in North Africa, where many of France's ...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says each restriction "translates into delayed or denied medical care".

A WOMAN who wore a full burqa into an Australian court should have been asked to show her face, a law lecturer says. Dr Nicky Jones of University of Southern Queensland said magistrates and judges ...

In the clash of cultures between the West and Muslim world, few battles have been more fiercely fought than the one raging in Europe today over the burqa. The burqa, or full-face veil, was the law for ...

Jean-Francois Cope, who heads the governing UMP party in the French National Assembly, told Le Figaro newspaper's weekly magazine that men who force their wives to wear the burqa or niqab could face ...