The court has also blocked legislation to lift a ban on Islamic headscarves at public universities.
Some women with headscarves and bearded men also marched, though they were in the minority.
On September 1st Ms Heremans reluctantly reversed herself and banned headscarves at her school.
You know, if women wear headscarves, they do out of conviction not out of pressure.
As a constitutional-court judge, he once overruled a government decree that would have allowed headscarves on campus.
In 2009, after women protested, it scrapped a decree requiring female lawyers to wear headscarves in court.
There are women wearing Muslim headscarves with small children in tow and men clad in colorful African dress.
After the European Court of Human Rights upheld a ban on headscarves in public schools, he changed course.
At the same meeting, FIFA also confirmed it would permit the wearing of headscarves during a trial period.
Here, most of the women you see wear headscarves and full length robes.
Other countries have been more assiduous (some would say too assiduous) in doing so: France forbade schoolgirls to wear headscarves.
They know there are votes to be won by championing the right of female students to wear headscarves in lectures.
We as a society want patients to smile and wear headscarves and tell us about the silver lining of their disease.
The French Government has been split on whether to ban headscarves in public institutions because of its policy of strict secularism.
One such is, for example, the suggestion that women should be allowed to wear headscarves in state institutions, as some Muslims wish.
Delegates, especially the bearded men and the women in headscarves, tittered nervously.
Shoulder-length headscarves, common elsewhere in the Arab world, were seldom seen in Iraq except on Palestinian women (so they were called Palestinian veils).
In the fields, in the shadow of giant billboards giving motivational advice or productivity targets, women in headscarves bend over crops of maize, corn and rice.
Nevertheless, the frustration of Turkish feminists, who fear they have lost ground to women demanding the right to wear Islamic-style headscarves in lectures, is understandable.
More worldly feminists look down on them because they wear headscarves.
In the crowd, iPods and designer sunglasses vie with headscarves and prayer beads as the accessory of choice, showcasing the diversity of the 13-million-strong local population.
As there was no medical risk to wearing headscarves when playing a game of football, it has decided to relent on a ban introduced in 2007.
Muslims are not the only ones who have made such requests, nor is the wearing of headscarves the only request that we have received from Muslims.
Then, clogs and headscarves were the uniform of the day and a big sense of community was created with regular social group outings, including crates of beer of course.
Germany lacks the republican assertiveness of France, which bars schoolgirls from wearing headscarves, and the populist self-confidence of Switzerland, which voted to ban minarets in a referendum last November.
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These days, Britain's sovereign exhibits a more conservative wardrobe, including solid-color overcoats, decorative hats that allow her to be picked out easily in a crowd of patriotic well-wishers, and headscarves.
The head of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), Mohammed Moussaoui, has warned against any new law aiming to curb the right of private-sector employees to wear headscarves.
Earlier this year, a branch of Al-Aqsa University in the southern town of Khan Younis made it a requirement for all female students to wear robes in addition to headscarves.
Soccer's governing body had prevented teams wearing the traditional headscarves -- which protect the modesty of Islamic girls and women -- for safety reasons and to prevent political or religious statements.
France, though not an American ally on Iraq, has also been rattled by apparent threats from a previously unknown terror group to attack the country because of its ban on Muslim headscarves.
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