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Ban on Veiling of Women and Religious Freedom in Europe

Publication at Faculty of Law |
2014

Abstract

To European migration space flowed in recent decades, a significant number of immigrants from other cultural circles and there is a problem both in terms of new immigration to ensure the basic rights of members of culturally diverse. The focus of the new minorities standing practice of religion, including the use of a specific way of dressing.

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights took the case relating to the prohibition of covering faces in public to not only formulated the essential considerations for interpretation and application of religious freedom in the Contracting States of the European Convention on Human Rights, but also defined the boundaries of judicial interference in the democratic decision-making process on the national level.