In Uganda, where Muslims are roughly 14 per cent of the general population, modest dress code is usually the visible sign of a Muslim woman’s faith. However, at first glance, sometimes it is hard to ...

All this talk of protecting women's "honour" is starting to sound less like policy and more like public relations. Because ...

The Forward has an interesting report that focuses on how some Orthodox women in Brooklyn neighborhoods are trying to follow the Jewish law of tznius, or modesty, while still dressing fashionably. At ...

Back in January, a group of women in the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh won a lawsuit against the municipality for refusing to remove “modesty signs”—signs instructing women how to dress, placed around ...

Before Sept. 11, it elicited stares and occasional comments. Since then, the scarf worn by many Muslim women has received far more attention than that. Now, even casual observers wonder why Muslim ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council recently released a report that has placed the Iranian government under a global microscope for its egregious human rights crisis and ongoing mistreatment of ...

PROVO, Utah (NPR) — This is the first summer The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has offered the underclothing without sleeves in its nearly 200-year history. PROVO, Utah (NPR) — Even on ...

Darjeeling: Mahakal Mandir in Darjeeling has introduced a dress code for women, barring them from wearing short dresses and ...

The police in Karnataka have registered an FIR against RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat over a speech for allegedly ...