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DANISH MPs provisionally backed a “burka ban” yesterday following similar legislation from other European governments.
A large majority of MPs, including the opposition Social Democrats — Denmark's largest party — said they would vote for a ban on garments that cover the face, although a date for a vote has not been announced.
Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, an MP for the liberal Left Party that leads Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen’s coalition government, claimed the proposed legislation was not targeted at any religion and was not a ban on headscarves, turbans or the Jewish kippa skull cap.
Women’s fight against violence and legal erosion is central to building a democratic and just Iraq, says Dr SALMA SAADAWI
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
DANIEL GOVER considers the procedural complexities awaiting a Private Member’s Bill in its passage through Commons and Lords