(Anadolu) A court in Belgium ruled in favor of a schoolgirl and against the headscarf ban in the Flemish region of the country.
The school which the student had filed a case against is affiliated to a public body named GO! Education of Flemish Community. The body had decided to ban [the] headscarf in all public schools affiliated to it in the Flemish region of Belgium in 2013.
The Court of First Instance in the eastern Leuven city ruled that the student can go to school by wearing a headscarf.
(Brussels Times) An Islamic school in the Flemish city of Genk will appeal an accreditation refusal based on constitutional grounds which prevented it from opening on the first day of school. The Flemish minister of education, Hilde Crevits, said Genk’s Selam College […]
(Anadolu) Head of Greece’s Friendship, Equality and Peace (FEP) Party on Wednesday called on Athens to return the guaranteed rights of the Turkish minority in the Western Thrace. The Turkish minority in Western Thrace faces the threat of assimilation as they cannot […]
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