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CUREDI ID Question at stake Country Official Citation Date of decision Author
CUREDI045AT006 Whether Article 43a of the School Education Act, which prohibits children under the age of ten from wearing religious headwear in school, violates the freedom of religion and the right of parents to have their children educated in accordance with their religious and philosophical convictions. Austria Constitutional Court, Judgement of 11 December 2020, G 4/2020 (VfGH, Erkenntnis vom 11. Dezember 2020, G 4/2020)
ECLI:AT:VFGH:2020:G4.2020
2020-12-11 Kerstin Wonisch; Alexander Ganepola View
CUREDI043BE006 1) Whether a public-authority school can expand a ban on wearing religious signs based on its neutrality policy to apply to religious education teachers (when they are outside their classrooms), or whether the school must provide an exception for this particular category. 2) Whether the constitution places limits on the neutrality principle as it applies to state schools, given that the constitution also requires these schools to offer a wide range of religious courses taught by a special category of teachers who must be able to credibly represent their religion in their position at these public-authority schools. Belgium Council of State, Judgment of 01 February 2016, No. 233.672 (Conseil d’Etat, arrêt du 1 février 2016, n° 233.672)
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2016-02-01 Adriaan Overbeeke View
CUREDI101UK002 Whether a company’s uniform policy prohibiting its employees from visibly wearing necklaces with religious symbols constitutes unlawful discrimination on grounds of religion. United Kingdom Eweida v British Airways Plc [2007] UKET 2702689/06
2007-12-19 Ahmet Said Aydil View
CUREDI100ES007 Whether the transfer of a student wearing the hijab to another school is in the best interests of the child or infringed on the student’s freedom of religion. Spain Contentious-Administrative Court No. 1 Guadalajara, Judgement of 31 March 2023, No. 54/2023 (Juzgado de lo Contencioso-Administrativo Nº 1 Guadalajara, Sentencia de 31 de marzo de 2023, Sentencia núm. 54/2023)
2023-03-31 David Katz Rotnitzky View
CUREDI101TR007 Whether a ban on a university professor wearing the Islamic headscarf while performing her professional duties, and her being deemed to have resigned for continuing to wear it, violated her freedom of religion and constituted discrimination. Turkey Kurtulmuş v. Turkey, App. no. 65500/01, 24 January 2006
ECLI:CE:ECHR:2006:0124DEC006550001
2006-01-24 Ahmet Said Aydil View
CUREDI101TR010 Whether the Turkish authorities’ enforcement of a school dress code, and the resulting restriction on the applicants’ access to education arising from the ban on Islamic headscarves, violated the applicants’ rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Turkey Köse and Others v. Turkey, App. no. 26625/02, 24 January 2006
ECLI:CE:ECHR:2006:0124DEC002662502
2006-01-24 Ahmet Said Aydil View

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