Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Sri Lanka Blocks Exam Results over Muslim Head Coverings

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par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Girls walk along a road in Kattankudy, Sri Lanka, April 25, 2019. © 2019 Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP via Getty Images Government officials in Sri Lanka are withholding exam results from 70 Muslim women and girls because their head coverings allegedly covered their ears while they took their exams. The decision violates the students’ right to freedom of religion and further entrenches discrimination widely experienced by Muslims in Sri Lanka.The students, many from relatively low-income families living near the eastern city of Trincomalee, took their A-levels (advanced…

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