Sentences with phrase «wear niqabs»

The right of women to wear niqabs during their citizenship ceremonies became a major election issue throughout Canada.

She says: «if [Muslim women] believe that they will be required to remove their niqabs or put through a demeaning and humiliating process before having a determination of whether or not they can wear their niqabs while testifying, they're simply not going to report [sexual assaults].»

As for reasons women wear the niqab etc: when a culture has a long history of suppressing women, it is often furthered by women who buy into it.

Forcing a woman to wear a niqab or a burqa will be punishable by a year in prison or a 15,000 - euro ($ 19,000) fine, the government said, calling it «a new form of enslavement that the republic can not accept on its soil.»

Birmingham Metropolitan College has lifted the ban on students wearing the niqab and Blackfriars Crown Court has similarly allowed a defendant to give evidence whilst fully veiled.

I seriously think that a ban on wearing the niqab or the burqa in public should be considered.

There is still a perception in wider society that Muslims are stone - age fundamentalists, locked onto benefits, bent on creating news with uncomfortable practices such as wearing the niqab.

She was wearing a niqab.

It seems likely that there are many more women wearing a regular hijab who feel pressured to do so, whereas wearing the niqab is almost certainly the result of a personal political or religious choice.

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.

But N.S. claims the Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects her right to wear the niqab as part of her Muslim beliefs.

The majority decision, supported by four of the seven judges who heard the case at the SCC, said lower courts must consider, among other things, the harm that could come if Muslim women who wear the niqab feel discouraged from reporting offenses.

Wearing a niqab in the courtroom does not facilitate acts of communication.

The case of a Muslim woman seeking to wear her niqab to testify is being argued before the Supreme Court of Canada today.

The second question is: would permitting the witness to wear the niqab while testifying create a serious risk to trial fairness?

The trial judge refused to let N.S. wear the niqab on the grounds that she had not proven that her religious faith was sufficiently strong to justify it.

The applicant is one of 300 women who were fined under the law within its first year for wearing a niqab (a veil that leaves only the eyes visible).

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.

If I refused to serve a woman wearing a niqab in my law office, I might well be subject to human rights complaint, but as a newspaper editor I should be able to argue that niqabs should be banned.

[1] How should the state respond to a witness whose sincerely held religious belief requires her to wear a niqab that covers her face, except for her eyes, while testifying in a criminal proceeding?

For example in Ishaq v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2015 FC 156, (a case about whether a woman could wear her niqab during a citizenship ceremony), six public interest groups — including the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the National Council of Canadian Muslims — were refused permission to intervene, as the court determined that they could not advance their proposed arguments without social science evidence to back them up; nor could the court take judicial notice (facts and materials are accepted on a common sense basis without being formally admitted in evidence) of any of the facts necessary to support the arguments.

If a particular claimant testifies that she wears the niqab because as part of her practice of faith, that is all that is needed to make the niqab a religious symbol.

Additionally, all women who wear the niqab readily concede the rational need to temporarily remove it for identification and security purposes.

Note that I do not mention religion because I have been made aware that wearing the niqab may have nothing to do with the religion of Islam and may not stand up under the religious defense.

I suspect that if I walked down the street and into a government office right now in a balaclava I would receive more than a few concerned stares (probably more than a woman wearing a niqab).

Challenges would claim, among other things, that refusing to serve women who are following Muslim dress codes by wearing a niqab is «discriminating» and «disadvantaging» people on the basis of their ethnicity, culture and gender.

All that matters is if the wearer sincerely believes that wearing the niqab is connected to their faith.

Many niqabis enjoy wearing niqab and do not see themselves as «under their husband's boot.»

We have no jurisdiction to deal with animals or whistles, but if someone's wearing a niqab or a veil to a citizenship hearing, we are extremely interested.

Finally, reaffirming the judiciary's attempts at even - handedness regarding headcoverings and the niqab, in 2012 the Supreme Court of Canada issued a judgment29 that weighed the rights of a witness to wear a niqab against the constitutional right of the accused to a fair trial, where the credibility of the veiled witness was in question.

Not exact matches

While visiting Abu Dhabi, Carrie and the gang find themselves in the back room of a dried - flower shop staring at seven women wearing black niqabs.

In most of the Arabian Peninsula, which includes the U.A.E. and Kuwait, women wear an abaya — a long dress that covers all of the body except for the hands and is usually paired with a niqab or a hijab, the latter of which covers the head but leaves the face exposed.

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.

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.

Perhaps the way women are expected to be now is even more dangerous than wearing the burqa or niqab.

Now these same individuals want to prove their freedom loving, liberal worldview by declaring that the wearing of the Burka or Niqab is a human right.

«We shouldn't tolerate sharia law in Aust and the burqa / niqab shouldn't be worn in public,» he tweeted.

Mona Eltahawy argued that a «burqa ban» — which fines women who wear a burqa or niqab in public and threatens fines and prison time the people who force veils on women — should be extended worldwide.

I have been concerned for some time about the niqab and the burqa, but it was not until I took my children to the play area in my local park recently and saw a woman wearing a full burqa that it came home to me how inappropriate and, frankly, offensive it is for people to wear that apparel in the 21st century and especially in Britain.

The London mayor's outburst comes amid a continued controversy over the niqab, with details emerging of hospitals forcing veil - wearing staff to remove the item while talking with patients.

Salma Yaqoob's comments came as the UK Independence Party (UKIP) announced a formal policy that would make the wearing of garments such as the burka or the niqab — both of which conceal most of the face — to be illegal.»

Information and activities to teach about different attitudes to the «veil» and modesty in Islam (including hijab, niqab and burqa), and how Muslim women should make decisions over wearing it.

«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.»

Justices Louis LeBel and Marshall Rothstein concurred with the judgment on dismissing the appeal, but argued for «a clear rule that niqabs may not be worn at any stage of the criminal trial» in the interests of openness and religious neutrality.

«With a niqab - wearing witness, that witness is in the courtroom answering questions.

Clearly, this law is aimed at persons, especially Muslim women, who wear face coverings related to their religion, such as a burqa or niqab.

This particular proceeding, involving the wearing of a niqab, raised a novel issue which was ultimately litigated to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Justice LeBel and Rothstein wrote a dissenting opinion holding that the wearing of a niqab by a witness was incompatible with the rights of the accused, while Justice Abella found that requiring a witness to remove her niqab was an unjustifiable limitation on religious freedom.

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.

One of the challenges of the argument that runs «ban — or discourage — the niqab because it oppresses women» is to be very sure that the woman who wears one does so against her will.