This week a set of photos went viral capturing side-by-side glimpses of a burkini-clad Muslim woman surrounded by officers who then forced her to remove her burkini. The burkini is a swim-suit ...

After over a dozen French towns have banned women from wearing 'burkinis' – a swimsuit for women that leaves just the face, hands and feet exposed – a demand for the product has risen 200 percent ...

The sight of burkini-wearing women getting kicked off French beaches by police became a point for immense controversy over the European summer. That incident followed a ban on the swimming garment ...

Swimwear Restrictions Blocked Over Legal Concerns. A proposal to effectively ban the burkini in Geneva's public pools was ...

Several Muslim women swimming or reclining on French beaches in hijabs this month were stopped by police officers threatening to issue them a fine if they don’t remove some of their clothing or leave ...

The burkini has been everywhere these days. The full-length swimwear garment that is a portmanteau of burqa and bikini has been making headlines after a number of French cities banned them on their ...

That’s how some women working in the Islamic fashion industry view the furor in France over burkinis, the body-concealing swimsuit that has been banned in a growing number of seaside towns. “I am ...

France, which likes to call itself the cradle of human rights, is caught in a debate on whether or not to ban the wearing of “Burkini’s” on beaches and the republic’s highest court is studying the ...

In several cities in the south of France, the burkini, a swimsuit that covers everything except your face, hands and feet, has been banned. As expected, this has caused outrage across the world, with ...

Last Friday's decision overturning a local burkini ban in France was a welcome victory for tolerance and religious freedom. But it relied on a narrow reading of public policy goals that supporters of ...

If France’s recent burkini ban sounds like the biggest steaming heap of sexist malarkey you’ve heard in a long time, you’re not alone. Of course, Twitter has had a field day with the news — blasting ...