No Hijab Day was created by CLARITy Coalition co-founder Yasmine Mohammed in response to a reality too often denied or sanitized in the West: for millions of women and girls, the hijab is not a symbol of empowerment or identity—it is a tool of control, enforced through law, family pressure, violence, and fear.
Around the world, women are beaten, imprisoned, or killed for refusing to veil. Yet in liberal democracies, even acknowledging this truth has become controversial. Voices like Yasmine’s—women who have lived under compulsory veiling and escaped it—are routinely dismissed in favour of abstractions about “culture” and “choice,” divorced from the conditions in which that so-called choice is made.
No Hijab Day exists to centre those erased voices and to reassert a foundational liberal principle: a woman’s body belongs to her, not the state, not her community, and not an ideology.
CLARITy Coalition supports No Hijab Day because defending women’s freedom requires more than symbolic solidarity—it requires moral clarity, intellectual honesty, and the courage to confront uncomfortable truths. This is not a day against Muslim women. It is a day for women who are denied the right to choose—and for societies that must decide whether freedom still means something when it becomes politically inconvenient.
Join us for the ninth annual No Hijab Day on February 1, 2026!
We celebrate women across the globe who are risking imprisonment, honour violence, and even death to fight for autonomy over their bodies and minds.
Our theme this year is
The Brave Women of Iran. Our focus will be on highlighting and supporting the phenomenal women of Iran who
have been fighting for their freedom from religious misogyny and oppression for almost half a century.
To support this movement, go to our website to order a t-shirt or a hoodie to wear proudly and send us your photo! Post stickers all around your city or on your
car! Whatever you do, share your pictures with us using the hashtag #NoHijabDay.
Go to
NoHijabDay.com
for resources and more! Join us in this global fight for autonomy, dignity, and freedom!