The transfer broke the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the UN committee stated.

Geneva:

France violated a global rights treaty when it banned a girl from carrying a scarf whereas she studied at a college, a UN committee has dominated.

The transfer broke the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee stated.

Its resolution follows a criticism filed in 2016 by a French nationwide born in 1977, whose lawyer doesn’t want her title to be printed.

The lady was on knowledgeable coaching course for adults in 2010, and had handed an interview and entrance take a look at.

But the headmaster of Langevin Wallon highschool within the southeastern suburbs of Paris refused to let her enter due to a ban on carrying non secular symbols in public academic institutions.

The UN committee stated “prohibiting her from participating in her continuing education course while wearing a headscarf constitutes a restriction on her freedom of religion in violation of the treaty”.

The committee’s resolution was adopted in March however despatched to the girl’s lawyer on Wednesday.

“This is an important decision which shows that France has work to do in terms of human rights and in particular on the issue of respect for religious minorities, and more particularly the Muslim community,” her lawyer Sefen Guez Guez informed AFP.

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