Sentences with phrase «wear face veils»

Asked whether pupils should be able to wear face veils in school, the education secretary said «we're not going to tell people what they can and can't wear» but schools had the right to impose a uniform policy.

When questioned about whether pupils should be able to wear face veils in schools, Morgan responded that dress codes were «up to the school» and that schools had the right to impose a uniform policy.

David Johnston, author of Earth, Empire and Sacred Text, Christine Schirrmacher, a scholar with the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and Joseph Cumming, director of the reconciliation program at Yale Divinity School, discuss whether Christians should support laws that ban Muslim women from wearing the face veil in public.

Most Muslim women in Canada choose to wear the face veil voluntarily, either out of a belief that it is required, or recommended practice.

Does this mean that individuals can not get service from the state while wearing a face veil (except in life - or - death situations)?

For example: the right of a small, rural community who believe that the Second Commandment prohibits their photograph from being willingly taken to be exempted from the photograph requirement for driver's licenses was limited to preserve the province's facial recognition data bank aimed at minimizing identity theft; and the right of a Muslim woman to wear a face veil for religious reasons while testifying in court was limited to protect an accused's right to a fair trial.

Not exact matches

Personally the only feeling aroused in me is pity for the women who are forced to wear full face veils.

Police declined to specify whether the woman was wearing a burqa, a full - body covering that includes a mesh over the face, or a niqab, a full - face veil with an opening for the eyes.

For security purposes, women who wear the veil should be ready to remove their face covering in places where security and identity checks are necessary, such as airports.

London, England (CNN)- The ban imposed by French President Sarkozy on wearing a face - covering veil, or niqab, is simply dangerous gesture politics, representing little more than pandering to the far right in France.

The law imposes a fine of 150 euros ($ 190) and / or a citizenship course as punishment for wearing a face - covering veil.

A person wearing a floor - length veil with face covering walks in.

Once, it was to address a French ban on girls wearing face - covering veils in public schools, other times, a Swiss prohibition on minarets and the burning of churches in Malaysia.

If most are against the face veil, does the one who insists on wearing it have the «right and freedom» to wear it, for one thing so she does not run over Sabio in her car.

Boris Johnson has hit out at private schools in London which insist their female pupils wear the full face veil.

The recent debate over Muslim women wearing full face veils could see a return of riots as seen in Barnsley and Oldham in 2001, Britain's race watchdog chief has warned.

In the Court's opinion, in view of its impact on the rights of women who wished to wear the full - face veil for religious reasons, a blanket ban on the wearing in public places of clothing designed to conceal one's face could be regarded as proportionate only in a context where there was a general threat to public safety.

London mayor Boris Johnson reluctant to ban the wearing of full face veils after Lib Dem MP Jeremy Browne calls for a nationwide debate on whther they should be permitted in some sensitive areas

Get that magic moment by wearing a veil with a blusher that covers your face walking down the aisle.

«I have also made clear to my inspectors that where leaders are condoning the wearing of the face veil by staff members or by pupils when this is clearly hindering communication and effective teaching, they should give consideration to judging the school as inadequate.

«It is a shame that the niqab - the full face veil that a minority of Muslim women wear - has become a polarising issue when it need not be.»

Sir Michael says inspectors can rate schools inadequate if wearing Islamic face veils are a «barrier to learning».

Wearing a black dress, a black veil over her pale face, her lips red with a thin line of lipstick, his friend, whom he'd always thought pretty, became, in her grief, hauntingly beautiful.

Which didn't explain the malicious twinge of satisfaction she felt as she came face to face with Ashton Burke while she was cradled in the muscular arms of a devastatingly handsome Moroccan sultan and wearing little more than an enticing collection of veils.

Seated with legs akimbo, wearing a constructed traditional tiered wedding cake, with an open smile on her face and wearing a white wedding veil, the image is humorous but wickedly clever in its deconstruction of what the traditional wedding signified (s).

Judges should decide, on a case - by - case basis, whether women can wear the niqab, a full - face veil, while testifying in court, but a blanket rule on the issue would be «untenable,» Canada's top court ruled this morning.

«It is doubtful that the blanket ban on wearing a full - face veil in public pursues a legitimate aim.

The case concerns a French Muslim woman's complaint that French law prohibits her from wearing a full - face veil in public.

«We find that the criminalisation of the wearing of a full - face veil is a measure that is disproportionate to the aim of protecting the idea of «living together» — an aim that can not readily be reconciled with the Convention's restrictive catalogue of grounds for interference with basic human rights.»

Article 9 (freedom of thought, conscience and religion)-- in the applicant's view, her inability to wear the full - face veil in public places is incompatible with the freedom to manifest her religion or belief individually or collectively, in public or in private, by worship, teaching, practice and observance of rites

Article 11 (freedom of assembly and association)-- she complains of a violation of her right to freedom of assembly and association, because she is prevented from assembling with others in public wearing the full - face veil

S.A.S. v France is the first case in which the European Court of Human Rights has been called to address the validity of a criminal ban on wearing the full - face veil in any public place in relation with the European Convention on Human Rights.

Others are even more radical and vocal, stating the bill should go further and call for a complete ban on the wearing of the niqab or burqa Islamic face veils, similar to what certain European countries are doing.

Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination)-- the applicant complains that the statutory prohibition on wearing a garment designed to conceal one's face in public places gives rise to discrimination based on gender, religion and ethnic origin, to the detriment of women who, like herself, choose to wear a full - face veil

To summarize the Federal Court of Canada case leading to the Federal Court of Appeal decision, Zunera Ishaq says that her religious beliefs obligate her to wear a niqab, a veil that covers most of her face.

The central issue on this appeal arises from an apparent conflict between the constitutional rights of a witness in a criminal proceeding and the constitutional rights of the accused in that same proceeding.37 The witness, N.S., an alleged victim of historical sexual assaults, contends that her religious beliefs dictate that she must wear a veil covering her face, except her eyes, when testifying.

The Supreme Court of Canada recently decided a case regarding the ability of a complainant in a sexual assault case to wear a veil over her face while testifying in court.36 At the preliminary inquiry, the judge ordered that she remove her niqab before testifying.