by HRWF | Sep 17, 2023 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Muslim students’ robes are latest fault line for French identity When the French education minister declared that the abayas favored by some Muslim women “can no longer be worn in schools,” he stoked a fierce debate over the country’s secular ideals. By Roger...
by HRWF | Sep 7, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
FRANCE: Schools in France send dozens of Muslim girls home for wearing abayas Schoolgirls who refused to change out of the loose-fitting robes have been sent home with a letter to parents on secularism. Aljazeera (05.09.2023) – French public schools have sent...
by HRWF | Jun 12, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
FRANCE: MIVILUDES President resigns over Fonds Marianne scandal Another obnoxious story of taxpayers’ money liberally distributed to dubious associations hit Christian Gravel, who had to leave the French anti-cult mission. by Massimo Introvigne Bitter Winter...
by HRWF | May 26, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
FRANCE: Sonia Backès caught red-handed: a “religious profiling” of Muslim students in schools Police and intelligence services asked principals to identify how many pupils were absent from schools on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr by Massimo Introvigne ...
by HRWF | May 24, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Photo: The Marseille Courthouse. Credits FRANCE: Anti-cult Federation FECRIS membership collapses from 57 to 19 associations FECRIS, a non-profit association under French law now headed by a Belgian Socialist politician, has suddenly withdrawn from its website 38 of...
