INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO VIEWS ADOPTED BY THE COMMITTEE UNDER ARTICLE 5 (4) OF THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL, CONCERNING COMMUNICATION NOS. 2747/2016 & 2807/2016 (H.R. COMM.)

摘要

On July 17, 2018, the Human Rights Committee, the monitoring body of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), rendered decisions in two similar cases brought by two French nationals against the French state. Both petitioners were Muslim women who challenged Act No. 2010-1192 of 11 October 2010, a French law under which wearing of the niqab, also known as a "full-face veil," in public spaces is prohibited. These seminal cases constitute the first time that an international arbiter of human rights has ruled that France's face-veil ban violates the human rights of its citizens.