A total of 67 girls returned home rather than remove their abayas, Education Minister ... secular and compulsory” from primary school up to the end of high school. Macron also said that French ...

For her visit to the library, the new high school student has ... such as no longer wearing the abaya to go to middle school. Last year, the two young girls had already swapped their long dresses ...

The long, body-covering tunic that's often worn by Muslim women - known as the abaya - is now forbidden in French middle and high schools. France's highest court upheld the ban last night.

In the great majority, these were Muslim teenage girls wearing the abaya. Pronounced "ah-bye ... Agency via Getty Images Staff at this high school in the Paris suburbs organised a rally against ...

AFP PARIS: French schools sent dozens of girls home for refusing to remove their abayas — an over-garment from the shoulders to the feet worn by Muslim women — on the first day of the school ...

French schools sent dozens of girls home for refusing to remove their abayas - an over-garment from the shoulders to the feet worn by Muslim women - on the first day of the school year ...

The foundation took the awareness and sensitization to Abayi Girls Secondary School, Girls Technical College, and Elite International Schools among others, all in Aba, Abia State. Speaking to the ...

A schoolgirl in the French city of Lyon has reportedly been sent home for wearing a kimono, a traditional Japanese garment, as the European nation grapples with a controversial law banning the ...

ALBAWABA The controversy surrounding the ban on abaya, a traditional Muslim dress, in French schools has ignited a heated debate over secularism, civil liberties, and the balance between religious ...