الفلبين: مفوضية حقوق الإنسان تطالب بعدم منع الحجاب والنقاب

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أصدرت مفوضية حقوق الإنسان في "الفلبين" بيانًا تنصح فيه مختلف الجهات بأنه لا يجوز منع المرأة المسلمة من ارتداء الحجاب والنقاب بالمدارس والجامعات، وغيرهما من المؤسسات التعليمية، وذلك بعد تلقي "المفوضية الوطنية لمسلمي الفلبين" العديد من الشكاوى التي تشير إلى منع بعض المؤسسات التعليمية للمسلمات من ارتداء الحجاب والنقاب داخل أسوارها.

وطالب البيان رئيس المفوضية ومفوضية الخدمة المدنية ووزارة العمل - بالقيام بواجباتهم، وذلك طبقًا للعهود والمواثيق التي تنص على الحريات، وحرية المرأة خاصة؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Schools, agencies cannot prevent Muslim women from wearing hijabs – CHR

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said that Muslim women have the right to wear a hijab, burqa, or a niqab in schools, universities, and other learning institutions.

The CHR issued an advisory on the matter after the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) received complaints which said that several learning institutions prohibited students from wearing headscarves in campus.

There was also an allegation that a government agency forced Muslim women to uncover their ears for a photograph.

The CHR advisory quoted from the Magna Carta of Women, Section 28 of which states that “the state shall recognize and respect the rights of Moro and indigenous women to practice, promote, protect, and preserve their own culture, traditions, and institutions and to consider these rights in the formulation and implementation of national policies and programs.”

“It is clear, unambiguous and unequivocal, that Muslim women have the right to wear hijabs and that the named national agencies have the corresponding mandate to ensure that such exercise of religious belief is not breached by any state actor or private individual except when warranted by the standards set out by law,” the advisory read.

The CHR expects the Presidential Human Rights Committee, Civil Service Commission, the Department of Labor and Employment, and the Commission on Higher Education to fulfill the mandate.

However, the Department of Education (DepEd) did seek an exception to the headscarf rule. Last July 24, the DepEd requested Muslim teachers handling Arabic Language and Islamic Values Education remove their headscarves.

“This is to promote better teacher-pupil relationship and to support effective language teaching since seeing the teacher’s lips helps in the correct production of letter sounds,” Education Secretary Armin Luistro had explained.

Meanwhile, the Philippine Commission on Women lauded the combined efforts of the CHR and NCMF, which, they said, “[Continues to prove] that the country is becoming more responsive to the plight of the discriminated, unappreciated and undervalued women.”

“May this event serve as an eye-opener to private and non-government institutions and encourage them to become more gender sensitive and gender responsive.”