The Federal labour court in Erfurt has rejected the legal complaint of a 36 years old woman claiming to wear her headscarf during service at an Evangelical facility. Staff members would be obliged to behave “neutral” regarding religious affiliations. The headscarf would clearly symbolize the affiliation to Islam and therefore be incompatible with the rules…
February 9, 2014 Milan – A husband had allowed his wife to work in the bar, but on the condition that she was limited to help in the kitchen. “Instead she poured wine to customers. But we are Muslims” he said in front of a judge “a woman should not even set foot in…
January 19, 2014 Amal Farah, a 32-year-old banking executive, is laughing about a contestant singing off-key in the last series of The X Factor. For a woman who was not allowed to listen to music when she was growing up, this is a delight. After years of turmoil, she is in control of her…
January 15, 2014 Students and women’s groups have written an open letter to the UN to condemn gender segregation at British universities. Writing to the UN’s special rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, the signatories are hoping to build pressure on UK universities to ban segregation of any kind. They write: “Gender segregation…
