Tag: reasonable_accommodation

Blog 133: Is Quebec Bill 21 Discriminatory?

Posted on 2021-12-24 by

David Rand 2021-12-28 If you check the text of Quebec’s Bill 21 (officially named An Act respecting the laicity of the State, where “laicity” is a bad translation and should be “secularism”), you will see that the religious symbol ban…

In the News: Council of Europe Rejects Religious Accommodation

Posted on 2020-02-02 by

jean.meslier Posted in In the News — No Comments ↓

Council of Europe rejects recommendation on reasonable accommodation, European Humanist Federation (EHF), 2020-01-29. Brussels, 29 January 2020 – The European Humanist Federation (EHF) welcomes the rejection of the recommendation on “The protection of freedom of religion or belief in the…

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