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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Wearing the abaya is part of this logic ... of Jean Zay [1904-1944], who was a minister for the Front Populaire party, which was an alliance of left-wing movements, who said that "schools must ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

France's education minister has banned the wearing of the popular long robe known as the abaya in schools. He says it is a symbol of Islam. As students in France return to school this week ...

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 ...

That was defined for quite some time as any woman who was not wearing an abaya, the cloak-like covering meant to conceal the shape of a woman's body. Women who were threatened for wearing Western ...