muslim women – Reporters Nepal https://nepalireporter.com Impart Educate Propel Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:37:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.6 https://nepalireporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-RN_Logo-32x32.png muslim women – Reporters Nepal https://nepalireporter.com 32 32 Muslim headscarf in crosshairs of French govt https://nepalireporter.com/2013/04/9983 https://nepalireporter.com/2013/04/9983#respond Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:37:16 +0000 http://nepalireporter.com/?p=9983 France: Because of her choice to wear a Muslim hijab headscarf, Samia Kaddour has all but abandoned trying to land a government job in France. Soon some private sector jobs could be off limits, too.

French President Francois Hollande says he wants a new law that could extend restrictions against wearing of prominent religious symbols in state jobs into the private sector. It comes amid a political backlash after a top court ruled that a day care operator that gets some state funding unfairly fired a woman in a headscarf.

Kaddour was on hand in Le Bourget, north of Paris, for the four-day Annual Meeting of Muslims ofFrance that ends Monday. The conference last year drew 160,000 faithful and is billed as the largest gathering of its kind in Europe.

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