Face covering, she said, should be banned "where legally possible".
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Mosquitoes nipped at her shoulders and face, covering her skin with pockmarks.
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The ban also applies to other face-covering clothing, such as motorcycle helmets.
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Face covering is banned in public and benefits are reduced for asylum seekers.
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Significantly, though, Mr Johnson did not advocate a general ban on face-covering attire.
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She eventually reposted the pic with a smiley face covering the offending body part.
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And he defends Austria's ban on face-covering veils, a solution in search of a problem.
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In 2015 a ban eschewing religious language was imposed on "face-covering clothing" in certain situations.
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A fight ensued with multiple people, including Mr. Butt's wife, dressed in a face-covering veil.
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Since 2011, it has been illegal to wear a face-covering veil in public in France.
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Norway's government in June proposed a ban on face-covering Muslim veils in kindergartens, schools and universities.
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France, a case challenging France's 2010 law banning face-covering veils, including the niqab and the burqa.
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France, with its determinedly secular government, already bans face-covering veils in public and headscarves in schools.
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A law that banned face-covering garments in public also came into effect in Belgium in 2011.
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The singer Sia is now known for her iconic face-covering wig to evade the trappings of fame.
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"I felt liberated," Hamidi told Reuters after swapping her black face-covering veil for a red head scarf.
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Yet they have since found that defining a face covering and enforcing the law are challenging, at best.
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In one case, Vienna police arrested a man wearing a face-covering shark costume as a PR stunt.
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The women, wearing face-covering veils and clutching toddlers, huddle in a different spot, also separated by nationality.
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The usually private singer shocked photographers as she walked through LAX Thursday, without wearing her usual, face-covering wig.
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Here's a look at efforts in some Western countries to restrict the wearing of face-covering garments in public.
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OSLO, Norway — Norway aims to ban face-covering veils in kindergartens, schools and universities, the government said on Monday.
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Ms. Begum, who wears a face-covering niqab, rarely leaves her neighborhood for fear of being insulted or worse.
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Mahmoud's father died two years ago, said Umm Bilal, who wore a robe and Islamic face covering, or niqab.
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But restrictions against face-covering garments are also in place in countries like Belgium, Austria, and regions in Switzerland.
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Together they passed a range of law-and-order measures this year, including a ban on Muslim face-covering veils.
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On Tuesday, several of them lay on a table, with the clear face covering turned chalky from the repeated scrubbings.
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The ban does not apply to public streets, although police can ask an individual to remove face-covering clothing for identification.
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Here is a look at efforts in Europe and North America to restrict the wearing of face-covering garments in public.
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Last month the Netherlands adopted a ban on face-covering garb in education and health-care establishments, government buildings and public transport.
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Christopher Nolan is the master of subtly creating unease — and also the master of putting Tom Hardy in a face-covering mask.
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The package included a series of law-and-order measures such as a ban on Muslim face-covering veils in public places.
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What's more, the Islamic face covering for women is not a religious symbol; rather, it is iconic of female subservience and debasement.
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The law has upset some Muslims, including women who wear face-covering veils known as niqabs, and say that it stigmatizes them.
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Here is my (late) camerawoman Margaret Moth, who took a bullet in the face covering the facts and truth in Bosnia. #FactsFirst.
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A woman wearing a face-covering niqab was referred to the public prosecutor after footage of her dancing in public went viral.
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By widening the ban to all sorts of face covering it seeks to deflect the charge that it is based on religious animus.
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The measure also adds burqas to a law that makes it a misdemeanor to wear a face covering in public or while driving.
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A few women in full face-covering black robes and children carrying bags could be seen among the people milling at the frontline.
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In China, where face-covering swimwear has long been popular among wrinkle-fearing beachgoers, many do not understand what the fuss is about.
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The Lower House approved the bill in 2016, after attempts to impose a more general ban on burqas and other face-covering veils failed.
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The new law bans all face-covering garb, including for instance motor helmets and ski-masks, in public buildings, but not on the street.
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Elated women in Syria have removed their niqabs - the face-covering veil made compulsory by Isis - after their village was liberated from the jihadists.
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The Australian far right has long attempted to ban face-covering Muslim clothing, however, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has insisted that it won't happen.
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Following in the footsteps of its larger European Union partners, Bulgaria banned face-covering garments in government offices, schools and cultural institutions in 2016.
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Venetian women like the one in a 1775 etching by Giovanni David might wear the zendale, a black veil with a fringed face covering.
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Removing the garment, Ms. Hanson, who is not Muslim, said that the burqa, a full-body and face covering, should be banned in Australia.
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One step forward, two steps back: In a backward effort to integrate Muslim immigrants, the Austrian parliament has banned face-covering veils from public spaces.
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In secular France, civil servants cannot wear hair-covering veils during working hours and face-covering veils are banned for everybody in the public space.
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The country banned the headscarf and other "conspicuous" religious symbols from state schools in 2004, and the face-covering burqa from public places in 2010.
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However, the same rules didn't seem to apply to Cardi B, who wore her face-covering floral print on a visit to the Eiffel Tower.
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During his outing, Xi wore a regular surgical mask, of the type available to most people, rather than a respirator or more sophisticated face covering.
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Since 2011, it has been illegal to wear a face-covering veil in public in France, but the hijab does not fall into that category.
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Grim scenes of people lined up for hours to get a protective face covering, only to be turned away when pharmacies run out, have become familiar.
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In an article he wrote last August he said it was "ridiculous" that women should wear face-covering burkas that left them "looking like letter boxes".
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Wearing a black burqa that concealed her growing belly, Bint Fatma removed her face covering for much of the interview, revealing brown eyes and slim features.
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She says that she has only ever met women who say it is their choice to wear Islamic-style dress, such as the niqab, a face covering.
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The Islamic full-face covering, the niqab and the burqa, have both been used many times as camouflage for jihad activity, as well as simple criminal activity.
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Bill 62 would affect whether Muslim women could wear religious face covering such as a niqab or burqa on government jobs or when they receive government services.
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The Dutch upper House of parliament on Tuesday passed a law banning the wearing of face-covering veils in public buildings, such as schools, government offices and hospitals.
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France was the first country in Europe to forbid full face-covering Islamic veils, known as burkas, as well as the niqab, which covers part of the face.
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Op-Ed Contributor MONTREAL — A veil-wearing Muslim woman in Quebec can't work as a provincial civil servant or a municipal garbage collector without removing her face covering.
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Last October, Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive, invoked the Prohibition on Face Covering Regulation, making it a criminal offense to don a mask, even at lawful events.
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What caused a wild swing in the votes was a court fight over whether Muslim women could take the oath of Canadian citizenship wearing the face-covering niqab.
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A U.N. survey in 2013 found 99% of Egyptian women said they had been victims of harassment, and that was true even for women wearing the face-covering niqab.
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Nor is head-covering swimwear used exclusively by Muslim women; face-covering swimsuits have been spotted in China and other places, worn by beachgoers worried about too much sun.
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Some epidemiologists recommend wearing a mask or other face covering if you need to be in crowded spaces, like when you're going to the supermarket or using public transportation.
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Of course that includes washing your hands for 20 seconds with soap and water, not touching your face, covering your cough or sneeze and staying home when you're sick.
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Muslim women in the Netherlands will be banned from wearing face-covering veils in common public spaces, like schools, hospitals, or on public transportation, the Dutch government has decided.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - At a shopping mall in southern Riyadh, a woman shrouded in black robes and bulgy black coat throws snowballs at her young son, giggling underneath a face covering.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch Upper House of parliament on Tuesday passed a law banning the wearing of face-covering veils in public buildings, such as schools, government offices and hospitals.
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In 2011, France became the first country in Western Europe to ban face-covering garments like the burqa or niqab in public, although the law did not explicitly mention Islam.
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A century ago, scientists would unwrap their finds, often harming them in the process — one of the real mummies in the show was decapitated when archaeologists removed its face covering.
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It's among the salon's most popular requests, along with a signature design called "Emirati Beauty," which features an Arab woman with long lashes wearing a traditional metallic face covering, or burqa.
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In October, the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec made it a crime to wear a face-covering garment in public, a move that critics derided as discriminatory against Muslim women.
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Germany's Parliament this year approved a draft law banning women working in the judiciary, the civil service or the military from wearing face-covering veils, and will come into effect soon.
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Usher "inadvertently" showed his little guy on Snapchat Thursday ... posting a nude snap with a smiley face covering his happy place ... but leaving a little bit left over to say hi.
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The face-covering, or niqab, became a big issue in the 2015 Canadian federal election, especially in Quebec, where the majority of the population supported a ban on it at citizenship ceremonies.
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TBILISI (Reuters) - A Georgian government minister quit a television interview mid broadcast after several Georgian journalists wore black, face-covering hoods in protest at the detention of a colleague in neighboring Azerbaijan.
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The embattled leader said the order to enact the "Prohibition On Face Covering Regulation" was a "necessary decision" but insisted it does not mean Hong Kong was in a state of emergency.
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When it comes to the face-covering garments, such as the burqa or niqab, I believe the government has a legitimate security claim in wanting individuals in public places to be identifiable.
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In practice, however, France's roughly 5 million Muslims have felt targeted because laïcité has mainly translated of late into laws banning head scarves in state schools and face-covering veils in public.
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Deep Grecian blue against the rocky reds of the soil, soberly surreal, his "Blue Burqa in a Sunburnt Landscape" was an oblique, salty response to Australia's attempted ban on the face covering.
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Incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper, of the Conservative Party, spent months decrying the wearing of the niqab, a face-covering garment worn by some Muslim women, particularly by immigrants during citizenship ceremonies.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Norway aims to ban face-covering Muslim veils in kindergartens, schools and universities, the government said on Monday, the latest European nation to propose restrictions on wearing burqas and niqabs.
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Several countries — including France, Belgium, Austria and the Netherlands — have either passed laws that led to bans on full face-covering veils in public, or are considering legislation that would do so.
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It was on this basis that the French banned the Islamic headscarf and other "conspicuous" religious symbols in state schools in 2004, and the face-covering niqab in all public places in 2010.
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PARIS — The Canadian province of Quebec is the latest place to make it a crime to wear a face-covering garment in public, a move that critics derided as discriminatory against Muslim women.
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"We like it here because of the peace and the quiet," said Mr. al Mekhyal, 49, as his wife nodded agreement, her eyes peering from a narrow slit in her face-covering niqab.
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The debate surrounding face-covering veils has surfaced in many countries around the world, with different sides portraying the ban as an attack on religious freedom or a necessity to enforce national security.
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Finally, some say that the burqa and the niqab, a similar Muslim face covering, are tools of male oppression, and that banning such Islamic garb promotes gender equality (albeit at the expense of liberty).
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ZAUBE, Latvia — With her niqab, a face-covering Islamic veil that reveals just the wearer's eyes, Liga Legzdina stands out amid pine trees, grasslands and wood-paneled cottages in the Latvian hamlet of Zaube.
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In a newspaper column, he used the full range of his colourful vocabulary to pour scorn on face-covering by Muslim women, even while arguing that Britain should not follow Denmark in banning such attire.
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Washing your hands frequently with soap and water, avoiding touching your face, covering coughs and sneezes, and avoiding contact with sick people can help prevent the spread of adenovirus and other respiratory viruses, Maragakis said.
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The law, which went into effect Saturday at midnight local time, bans protesters from wearing any sort of mask or face covering, including paint, at any public gathering, including both lawful protests and unlawful assemblies.
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Cold, harsh winds can also dry out and irritate the skin, so make sure to also moisturize before and after outdoor exercise, and wear a protective face covering if conditions are especially cold and windy.
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It also wants to ban the full-face covering burqa, calling it "a uniform of Islamism, a huge barrier to integration and a symbol of the repression of women that is unacceptable in our culture".
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But virtually all of the fines in Marseille for wearing a face-covering, head-to-toe veil — which is illegal in France — have been imposed in the vicinity of Imam Doudi's mosque, the police say.
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On its website, the ministry also told residents to abide by the dress codes of nations they visited, and to take note of the ban on wearing face-covering veils in countries like France and Belgium.
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The European Court of Human Rights issued a similar decision in 2014, upholding a 2011 ban on the public wearing of face-covering veils in France, where the debate over displays of religion has been especially heated.
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While wearing a face-covering veil in public or a head scarf in state elementary and high schools is banned by French law, there are otherwise no national restrictions on wearing religious clothing or symbols in public.
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Debates over whether Muslim women should be able to wear face-covering niqabs during citizenship ceremonies and the creation of a tip line for barbaric cultural practices underscored Canada's growing divide when it comes to religious accommodation.
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In April 2011, France became the first country in Europe to impose a ban on full-face veils in public areas, meaning that Muslim women who wore face-covering niqabs or burkas were no longer allowed to do so.
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The veil worn by some Muslim women also has become a flash point in France, which passed a law in 2010 banning face-covering garments like the burqa or niqab in public, although the law did not explicitly mention Islam.
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But while Arthur Wagner quit his AfD leadership post in the eastern state of Brandenburg, he remained a member of the party, which says Islam is incompatible with Germany's constitution and wants a ban on minarets and the face-covering burqa.
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In June, Reuters reported that Souad Hamidi, 19, tore off the face-covering veil she had been forced to wear since 2014 and replaced it with her red head scarf after her village in northern Syria was recaptured by the SDF.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's coalition government promised on Monday to ban Muslim face-covering veils and to restrict eastern European workers' access to the labor market, in a package of policies aimed at countering the rise of the far-right Freedom Party.
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"This is actually virtually a complete ban because the only spaces that are still available for women (who wear face-covering clothing) are the street and the private sector," said Annelies Moors, professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam.
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Donning self-contained breathing apparatuses—or large face-covering masks attached to an air tank that's worn like a backpack—the firefighters headed to the ninth floor of the Hyatt Regency, where the meter recorded a gas level of 1.4 parts per million.
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There were groans when a high school teacher dabbed; fidgeting and face-covering when Kayla searched for fellatio tips online; hisses and boos at an unwanted sexual advance; and sniffles during a tender, cathartic moment between Kayla and her father (Josh Hamilton).
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The Austrian poll findings suggest the centrist coalition government, or at least Chancellor Christian Kern's SPO, is gaining traction with a new policy program aimed at eroding FPO support, which includes a ban on Muslim face-covering veils and a range of security measures.
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After sharing a video of herself wearing the outfit on Instagram, some people called out the fact that while Cardi was seemingly allowed to wear the ensemble, Muslim women who wear face-covering niqabs or burkas in France are not allowed to do so.
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In these countries, as in Germany, it is thought that only a tiny minority of Muslim women actually wear the full face covering, and critics of the move say that such a proposal is a tactic to combat the rising popularity of far-right parties.
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"This is actually virtually a complete ban because the only spaces that are still available for women (who wear face-covering clothing) are the street and the private sector," Annelies Moors, professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, told Al Jazeera.
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We're still in the midst of a supply shortage, and N95s and surgical masks should still be reserved for those who need them most — medical professionals and people at high risk — but some experts say that any face covering at all could still have an impact.
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Citing a desire to protect Latvian culture and to address security concerns at a time of rising migration to Europe, the government is working on proposed legislation, inspired partly by similar restrictions on head coverings in France, that would ban face-covering veils from public spaces.
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Two Yazidi sisters, ages 20 and 26, arrived at the Hamam Ali 1 refugee camp, where they drew the attention of camp officials because they wore face-covering niqabs and refused to take them off, despite the fact that Yazidi women do not cover their faces.
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Laïcité is what led the French government to ban religious symbols and clothing — including crosses, yarmulkes (the Jewish skullcap, also called a kippah), and Islamic headscarves — from public schools in 2004 and to prohibit face covering in public in 2011, and is what was being used to defend the burkini ban.
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This principle is supposed to keep religion out of public life, and has been the basis of previous French bans: on the headscarf (and other "conspicuous" religious symbols, including the Jewish kippah and oversized crucifixes) in state schools (in 2004), and the face-covering niqab in all public places (in 2010).
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Just on Tuesday, a motion to debate removing a large crucifix that is prominently displayed in Quebec's National Assembly was blocked by the governing party, the same party that created the face-covering law — illustrating yet again how fraught and emotionally charged the subject of religious symbols is in the province.
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The new regulation — formally called the Prohibition on Face Covering Regulation and, more commonly, the face-mask ban — makes it a criminal offense punishable by one year of imprisonment for people to hide their faces in ways that prevent identification, even if they are participating in lawful meetings or marches. Mrs.
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The country was already in a heated national debate about the Conservative Party's effort to prevent a Muslim woman from wearing a face-covering veil while swearing the oath of citizenship, and the hotline idea was quickly attacked as a clumsy election-year stunt meant to appeal to anti-immigration voters.
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In addition to getting vaccinated, you can prevent the spread of flu with simple actions like washing your hands, not touching your face, covering your mouth and nose with your elbow (not your hand) when you cough or sneeze, and staying home if you are sick or until 24 hours after a fever has ended.
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Xinjiang's 10m Uighurs (nearly half of its population) have long been used to heavy-handed curbs: a ban on unauthorised pilgrimages to Mecca, orders to students not to fast during Ramadan, tough restrictions on Islamic garb (women with face-covering veils are sometimes not allowed on buses), no entry to many mosques for people under 18, and so on.
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" "As the current situation has clearly given rise to a state of serious public danger, the Chief Executive and council decided at a special meeting this morning to invoke the power under the emergency regulations ordinance, and make a new regulation by the name of Prohibition on Face Covering Regulation, which is essentially an anti-mask law.
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The banning of forms of Muslim veiling in various public spaces — from the hijab ban in French schools and restrictions for teachers in some parts of Germany to an outright ban of the face-covering niqab in public spaces in Denmark, Belgium and France — shows how anti-Muslim sentiment has moved comprehensively from society's fringes to the heart of government.
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Apple also revealed that it's created neural networks to mathematically model faces so that the tech can be smart enough to adapt to the changing landscape and aspects of a person's face — such as if they start wearing glasses, or get a new hairstyle, put on a scarf or grow a beard (less clear: Whether it works if a user is wearing a fuller face covering) — apparently training their model with more than a billion images of faces from around the world.
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