Tags: Secularism
Turkish court lifts ban on hijabs for lawyers at bar association
Posted: Tue, 12 Nov 2013
The Turkish Supreme Court has lifted the ban on female lawyers wearing hijabs when registering with the Turkish Bar Association. Previously the photo submitted with the application for registration had to be without headcovering according to the association's... Read More »
Fiji’s new constitution may be secular, but it still undermines human rights, says Amnesty
Posted: Mon, 09 Sep 2013
Fiji's new constitution — which was ratified on 6 September 2013 — may be secular but it "falls far short of international standards of human rights law," says Amnesty International. Read More »
France posts secular charter in all state schools
Posted: Mon, 09 Sep 2013
The French Education has unveiled the controversial secularism charter which is to be displayed in a prominent position in every school to remind pupils and teachers of the country's secular, Republican principles. Read More »
Obama renews mandate of “faith-based council” and allows religious discrimination to continue
Posted: Thu, 11 Apr 2013
President Barack Obama has issued an executive order extending the Faith-Based Advisory Council without addressing employment discrimination among many of the faith-based organisations that receive federal funding through the programme. Read More »
Religious bodies in sustained attack on French secularism
Posted: Wed, 10 Apr 2013
The French Government is at increasing odds with aggressive religious lobbies – particularly the Catholic Church – which are determined to undermine the nation's constitutional secularism. Read More »
Poll shows Turks want secularism
Posted: Wed, 28 Nov 2012
An overwhelming majority of Turkish people want secularism to be included in the country's new charter, a recent survey conducted by KONDA for the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) has revealed. Read More »
