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Showing posts with label Muslim girls to learn to swim with boys in Switzerland - Court rules. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Muslim girls to learn to swim with boys in Switzerland - Court rules. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 January 2017

Muslim girls to learn to swim with boys in Switzerland - Court rules


European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled in favour of Switzerland's educational authorities for Muslim girls to take mixed swimming lessons with boys. It comes after two Swiss-Turkish parents from Basel, Aziz Osmanoǧlu and Sehabat Kocabaş had refused to send their daughters to mixed swimming lessons on the basis of their religion.