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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10093
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) council of europe

Hammarberg against burqa ban

Brussels, 08/03/2010 (Agence Europe) - An across-the-board ban on wearing the burqa is not a good move, and one that is probably not compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg has said. “Prohibition of the burqa and the niqab would not liberate oppressed women, but might instead lead to their further alienation in European societies,” he said in his latest “Viewpoint”, published in Strasbourg on Sunday 7...

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