International Women’s Day
“Women should be free to choose how to dress, without interferences neither from their communities nor from state authorities” said Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, in his latest Viewpoint published today on the occasion of the International Women’s Day. “Prohibition of the burqa and the niqab would not liberate oppressed women, but might instead lead to their further alienation in European societies” he said. “Rightly, we react strongly ag...

