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EU court allows companies to ban headscarves. What will be the impact on Muslim women?

  • Written by Z. Fareen Parvez, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that interprets EU law issued a landmark judgment on March 14 that upheld the right of private companies in EU member countries to enact policies barring employees from wearing “religious, political and philosophical signs” in the interest of “neutrality.”

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