The hijab should be the subject of a ban in schools under the next legislature, according to federal secretary of state Zuhal Demir. “The headscarf has no place in schools,” she said. The hijab, derived from the instruction from the Quran for women (and men) to dress modestly, has been the subject of controversy in …
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Betul Baslik, a Turkish-origin social services and pedagogy graduate, has been denied an internship by a Belgian retirement home due to her headscarf. Born and raised in Belgium, Baslik told Anadolu Agency that she had recently been accepted to pursue her master’s degree at Vrije University Brussels, and she had been encouraged as a successful …
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Two kids with terminal illnesses were the youngest ever people to be euthanized after Belgium authorities allowed them to decide whether to live or die. The children, ages 9 and 11, were given lethal injections in the European country which permits children with terminal illnesses who are in “unbearable suffering” to choose to die. The …
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The European Court of Human Rights on September 18 convicted Belgian authorities for violating the EU Convention on Human Rights by excluding a Muslim woman from a courtroom for refusing to remove her headscarf. In 2007, the applicant, referred to by the EU court as “Mrs Lachiri”, was attending a court hearing in a case concerning …
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Report by Refugee Rights Europe says 94 percent of refugees in Brussels sleep rough and majority don’t get enough food. Refugees in the Belgian capital, Brussels, are living in “untenable” conditions with many sleeping rough and without access to sufficient food, a report by Refugee Rights Europe (RRE) has warned. Researchers found that 94 percent …
Around 76 percent of Islamophobic attacks in Belgium in 2017 targeted Muslim women, an anti-Islamophobia association in the country revealed on Saturday. The Belgian Association for the Prevention of Islamophobia (CCIB) published a report on the attacks happened in 2017. According to the report, the attacks mainly carried out by targeting places of worship, spreading …
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As the year 2018 came to a close Monday, it brought with it an end to kosher slaughter in the northern Flanders region of Belgium, home to half of the country’s Jewish population and a major supplier of meat for European Jewish communities. In June 2017, the parliament in the Flemish region, one of the …
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Belgium’s Africa Museum will reopen to the public on 9 December after five years of renovations designed to modernize the museum from an exhibition of pro-colonial propaganda to one that is critical of Belgium’s imperialist past. The museum, full of artefacts and stuffed wildlife, was often criticized for ignoring the brutalities of King Leopold II’s …
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The Brussels Criminal Court has sentenced 54-year-old woman to three years in jail for attacking her 19-year-old daughter. The woman had stabbed her daughter in the abdomen and under the chin after she had converted to Islam and secretly married a Muslim. The judge stated that the sentence would show the mother that her behavior was “unacceptable,” reported Belgian …
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Racial discrimination against Africans “is endemic” in Belgium’s institutions and the nation needs to apologize for the crimes committed during its colonization of Congo and make reparations, U.N. experts said Monday. Belgium’s actions in Congo have long been criticized as one of the worst examples of colonial abuse. Writer Adam Hochschild alleged in his 1998 book …
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