Allowing businesses to ban item of clothing at work will exclude Muslim women and encourage Islamophobia, critics say Turkey’s cabinet ministers have Read More
Jul 18, 2021
Religion
Jul 18, 2021
Turkey says EU headscarf ruling ‘grants legitimacy to racism’
Allowing businesses to ban item of clothing at work will exclude Muslim women and encourage Islamophobia, critics say Turkey’s cabinet ministers have Read More
Jul 15, 2021
The European ruling on headscarves opens the way to rank discrimination | Polly Toynbee
Humanists like me believe in people’s right to express their religious identity - or lack of it – however they see fitIt’s a puzzle that so many Read More
Jul 15, 2021
EU companies can ban employees wearing headscarves, court rules
Prohibition can only be implemented against all religious symbols as part of a policy of neutralityPrivate employers in the EU can ban people from Read More
Jun 30, 2021
Imran Khan’s comments about rape and purdah were taken out of context | Letter
Raoof Hasan, special assistant to Imran Khan, responds to criticism of the Pakistani prime minister’s remarks on women and sexual assaultMuch is being Read More
Jun 23, 2021
Sadia Hussein: the FGM survivor who is saving girls from the knife
Being cut, aged 10, led to extraordinary pain and complications in childbirth. Now Hussein’s campaign to end mutilation has led to a staggering change Read More
Jun 08, 2021
Ratko Mladić: life in prison is as close to justice as his victims will get
Analysis: upholding of genocide conviction for 1995 atrocities is a victorious end to a process few thought would succeedWhen Ratko Mladić’s life Read More
Jun 04, 2021
Experience: I was an imam at Guantánamo Bay
The official military line was that torture did not happen. As an insider, I knew this was a lieI was one of the first Muslim imams in the United Read More
May 08, 2021
Refugees and the Armenian genocide: human rights this fortnight in pictures
A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Colombia to China Continue reading... Read More
May 02, 2021
Free will debate rages on, or is it all an illusion? | Letters
Readers reflect on the role of chance, randomness and responsibility in their own livesWhat high-quality letters (29 April) on free will. My A-level Read More
Apr 19, 2021
Campaigners call for global response to ‘unprecedented’ oppression in Xinjiang
Human Rights Watch urges more coordination by governments to tackle China’s treatment of Turkic MuslimsThe Chinese government is committing crimes Read More
Apr 18, 2021
Seyran Ateş: ‘I’m not a traitor – I’m fighting for progressive Islam’
A new film documents the life and faith of the Turkish-German human rights lawyer and advocate of liberal Muslim worshipFor Seyran Ateş, restrictions Read More