sport Meet Tina Rahimi, Australia’s first Olympic female Muslim boxer Tina Rahimi is Australia’s first female Muslim boxer selected to represent the country at the Olympics. She will compete next year in Paris.
sport Morocco’s Nouhaila Benzina becomes first person to wear hijab in World Cup match Morocco’s Nouhaila Benzina made history on Sunday when she become the first ever player to wear a hijab in a World Cup match.
News & Views Nouhaila Benzina: The first woman to play wearing a hijab at the FIFA Women’s World Cup History has been made once more at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, as the first female player wearing a hijab took the field last night.
News & Views Iran imposes harsher measures including surveillance of women to enforce hijab wearing Iran has installed cameras in public places to identify and catch women who violate the country’s extremist dress code.
News & Views Mother and daughter arrested for not wearing hijab in Iran after being attacked by man A viral video from Iran showed an incident where two women are attacked by a man who threw yoghurt on them for not wearing hijabs.
News & Views ‘Women. Life. Freedom’: Schoolgirls of Iran take to the streets protesting Schoolgirls in Iran have taken to the streets, removing their headscarves and chanting “death to the dictator”
News & Views ‘We join our voices’: Protests reach Syria as Canada sanctions Iran Demonstrations protesting the deaths of women defying Islamic law in Iran have reached Syria, while Canada places sanctions on Iran.
News & Views Protests in Iran turn violent as another young woman is killed by security forces Another woman defying Iran’s mandatory hijab-wearing laws has reportedly been killed by the Islamic Republic’s security forces.
News & Views ‘Wear your hijab with pride’: Senator Fatima Payman tells young girls Senator Fatima Payman has addressed the senate for the first time, urging young girls who decide to wear the hijab to do so with pride.
Uncategorised Finland’s National League offers hijabs to any player that wants one Finland’s top division of women’s football, the National League is making hijabs free to any player that wants one.
News & Views Women wearing head coverings most at risk of abuse A new large-scale study from Charles Sturt University reveals that women who wear head coverings (hijab) are most at risk of abuse.
News & Views #LetNoorRun: Teenage athlete disqualified from race for wearing hijab A sixteen-year old athlete Noor Alexandria Abukaram was disqualified because she needed a waiver to wear her hijab, and she didn’t have one.