by admin_HRWF | May 17, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
DW (16.05.2019) – https://p.dw.com/p/3IZg1 – Austria’s parliament has passed a law intended to ban Muslim girls from wearing the headscarf in primary schools, a measure that is likely to be challenged as discriminatory in the constitutional court....
by admin_HRWF | Oct 30, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
E.S. v. Austria (no. 38450/12) – Fifth Section Chamber Judgment 25 October 2018HRWF (30.10.2018) – E.S., the applicant, is Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, the daughter of an Austrian diplomat, and was partly educated in Iran, where she was present during the...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 30, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
ECHR upholds ruling that criminalizes Islam-critique Vienna, 29.10.2018 (FOREF) — The Forum for Religious Freedom Europe (FOREF Europe), an independent nongovernmental organization based in Vienna, today voiced its strong disagreement with the latest decision of the...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 18, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
By Ariana Monique Salazar and Scott Gardner Pew Research Center (17.09.2018) – https://pewrsr.ch/2Ep3IRc – A Danish law that took effect in August makes it illegal for Muslim women to wear face-covering veils – such as burqas or niqabs – in public....
by admin_HRWF | Oct 9, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) HRWF (09.10.2018) – In 2012, HRWF published a book with the University of Dresden, Freedom of Religion or Belief Anti-Sect Movements and State Neutrality, A Case Study: FECRIS. Some of our main...
