“The abaya has no place in our schools ... a lawmaker with the Green party, said the ban was a form of “social control over the bodies of women and young girls.” However, Eric Ciotti ...

France will ban schoolchildren from wearing abayas ahead of the upcoming academic ... The amendment was proposed by the right-wing Les Républicains party, which argued the hijab could risk ...

a lawmaker for the leftist France Unbowed party, saying the ban exemplified an “obsessive rejection of Muslims.” But Jérôme Guedj, a Socialist lawmaker, said that if abayas were worn as an ...

French President Emmanuel Macron's political party has announced plans to ban minors under 15 from wearing the Muslim ...

While President Benigno Aquino III, chairman of the party, was mum over his choice to be his successor, acting LP president and Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya did not mince words ...

Eric Ciotto, head of the opposition right-wing Republicans party, also welcomed the news. "We called for the ban on abayas in our schools several times," he said. But Clementine Autain of the ...

The president of the opposition's right-wing Les Républicains party, Eric Ciotti, welcomed the news. "We called for the ban on abayas in our schools several times," he said. Clémentine Autain of ...

In fact, the abaya is just a new iteration of a debate ... The France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon has roundly condemned the ban, accusing the government of being ...

Female students will no longer be allowed to wear the loose-fitting abaya dress favoured by some Muslim women. The move comes almost 20 years after France banned headscarves from state schools.