A group of UN experts on Thursday denounced a crackdown on women in Afghanistan's western city of Herat, saying at least two ...

An Australian senator pushing a national burqa ban was barred on Tuesday from Parliament for the remainder of the year - ...

A senator who is campaigning for a national burqa ban has been barred from Parliament for the rest of the year for wearing the Muslim garment in the chamber. Pauline Hanson, the 71-year-old leader of ...

MEBOURNE, Australia(AP) — An Australian senator who is campaigning for a national burqa ban was barred Tuesday from Parliament for the rest of the year for wearing the Muslim garment in the chamber.

An Australian senator who has long campaigned for the Islamic women's garment known as the burqa to be banned in the country has been suspended from parliament for a week for her protest on Monday in ...

Pauline Hanson, the 71-year-old leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigration One Nation minor party, was accused of performing a disrespectful stunt on Monday when she walked into the Senate shrouded ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Pauline Hanson was suspended for seven sitting days after wearing a burqa in Parliament to protest her colleagues’ ...