* News * World news * French burqa and niqab ban France's burqa ban: women are 'effectively under house arrest'
From the Global Women's Network
| 2011/09/19 Since France introduced its burqa ban in April there have been violent attacks on women wearing the niqab and, this week, the first fines could be handed down. But a legal challenge to this hard line may yet expose the French state as a laughing stock Read more at The Guardian |
| Relates to France |
