NGO: Lift hijab ban on hotel frontliners

Compiled by NG SI HOOI 

PETALING JAYA: A coalition of civil society organisations has urged several ministries to change the discriminatory policy of prohibiting women wearing the headscarf (hijab) to be frontliners in the hotel industry.

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