UN committee ruled that France discriminated against a Muslim woman who was prevented from attending vocational training in a public school while wearing her headscarf
A United Nations committee has ruled that France discriminated against a Muslim woman who was prevented from attending vocational training in a public school while wearing her Muslim head scarf.
Six years earlier, in 2004, France had banned the wearing of hijabs and other visible religious symbols in state schools by school children. "The committee concludes that the refusal to allow to participate in the training while wearing her headscarf constitutes a gender and religious-based act of discrimination," the UN Human Rights Committee determined, according to the document.
France is home to one of Europe’s largest Muslim minorities. For years, the country has implemented laws designed to protect its strict form of secularism, known as “laicite,” which President Emmanuel Macron has said is under threat from "Islamism".
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