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Sikhs Win School Turban Ban Case Against France in the United Nations Human Rights Committee By HAINDER SINGH Published: December 15, 2012 http://www.sikhsiyasat.net/2012/12/15/sikhs-win-school-turban-ban-case-against-france-in-the-united-nations-human-rights-committee/ Paris...

The New York City Council passed a bill yesterday that might allow Sikh police officers to wear turbans and grow their beards. For years a group called The Sikh Coaltion has been pressuring the NYPD to allow sikh officers to honor traditional religious practices in wearing turbans and growing...

August 2, 2011 Italy Burqa Ban? Country Is Latest In Europe To Mull Outlawing Muslim Veils The Canadianm Press - August 2, 2011 ROME - An Italian parliamentary commission Tuesday approved a draft law banning women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public. The draft...

International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF) gets special mention due to political pressure exerted by India By TEJASHDEEP SINGH London (July 24, 2011): The ISYF was banned in the UK more than 10 years ago in March 2001 and this was widely acknowledged at that time by many UK politicians...

UK Unlikely To Ban Burqa After Belgium And France, Says Key Muslim Organisation Belgium will become the second EU nation to ban the burqa and niqab after France, reported RTE, Ireland's public service broadcaster. Starting next week, Muslim women who choose to wear the garment that covers...

What a drag … Iceland considers prescription-only cigarettes Tobacco bill proposes outlawing shop sales, with only doctors allowed to prescribe cigarettes to addicts unable to kick habit Iceland is considering banning the sale of cigarettes and making them a...

THE Dutch Parliament has passed a bill banning the slaughter of livestock without stunning it first, removing an exemption that allowed Jews and Muslims to butcher animals according to their centuries-old dietary rules. If enacted and enforced, religious groups say observant Jews and Muslims...

Saudi Women Hit the Road in Driving Ban Protest Published June 17, 2011 | Associated Press advertisement DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A Saudi woman defiantly drove through the nation's capital Friday while others brazenly cruised by police patrols in the first forays of a campaign that...

Birmingham, UK - An employment tribunal ruled today (18th May 2011) that a Sikh Prison officer was not discriminated against when he was asked to remove his Kirpan, his article of faith, even though a proposal to allow the wearing of the Kirpan had already been agreed in principle...

United Sikhs Want Ban on Wearing Kirpan by Airport Staff Revoked AMRITSAR: United Sikhs, an international UN affiliated advocacy non government organization, has sought the intervention of the director general of Central Industrial Security Force, N R Dass, to revoke the ban on the wearing...

AMRITSAR: United Sikhs, an international UN affiliated advocacy non government organization, has sought the intervention of the director general of Central Industrial Security Force, N R Dass, to revoke the ban on the wearing of the kirpan by airport employees at the airside of the Sri Guru...

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by Ananth Krishnan No mention of penalties for breaking the regulations The first thing Wang Shuying did after exchanging wedding rings was to whip out a cigarette lighter. Her first act as a newly-wed was to light a cigarette for her husband, following a widely prevalent modern Chinese...

Can you imagine a law in South Africa prohibiting Muslim women from wearing the veil? Or banning Jewish men from wearing a yamulkah, or Sikh men from wearing a turban? Since April 11 this has been the situation in France. It has banned the wearing in public of face-concealing veils such as the...

Apr 11, 2011 France puts burqua ban into effect Monday - Apr 11, 2011, 06:32pm (GMT+5.5) Paris - A law which bans all facial coverings, except motor cycle helmets or welding masks and masks used for health issues has been imposed in France with effect from Monday. The 'burqua...

Implications of Kirpan Ban in Rochester Gurdwara's Lawsuit By Anju Kaur, SikhNN staff writer, Washington Bureau What began last year as a commonplace lawsuit about control of the Gurdwara of Rochester, New York, has turned into a case with possible implications about the ability of Sikhs...

Somebody needs to set this writer straight on this: http://www.cynicsunlimited.com/2011/02/20/the-kirpan-yea-or-nay/ Finally, the idea of the kirpan as a White Christian versus minority non-Christian issue is literally brought to its heels by a letter from Ron Banerjee of the group Canadian...

Full-face veils outlawed France spells out controversial niqab ban Veils that cover the face to be illegal from next month, with President Sarkozy accused of trying to win far-right votes From Saudi tourists window-shopping on the Champs-Élysées to Muslim women in a departure lounge at...

[B]Sikhs 'disappointed' by Quebec vote barring kirpans from assembly[/B QUEBEC — Members of Canada's Sikh community said they were 'disappointed' Wednesday evening after Quebec's national assembly adopted a motion by a vote of 113-0 supporting the decision by security workers to bar four...

Sikh-era Remains of a Fateh Jang Village by Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro Qutbal is a historical village in Fateh Jang tehsil noted for its Sikh and Hindu period buildings. It was an important trade centre during the Sikh rule over Punjab and was also famous for Hindu merchants who controlled business...