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Pavez v. Chile, a Catholic diocese in San Bernardo, Chile discovered that Sandra Pavez, who taught religion classes at Cardenal Antonio Samoré Municipal School, had entered into a same-sex relationship.
While she was allowed to maintain employment with the school, even rising to leadership ranks, the school informed her in July 2007 that it could not certify her to teach those classes. Pavez took the school to court and claimed discrimination.
The Chilean Supreme Court sided with the school in 2008, holding that the church-based school has the right to certify its teachers as they see fit.
Pavez claimed a violation of the American Convention on Human Rights and took the case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The commission presented Pavez’s case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 2019.
Switzerland narrowly votes to ban face covering in public
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Ivana Kottasová, CNN
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(CNN) Swiss voters have approved a ban on full facial coverings including niqab and burqa in nearly all public places in a closely contested referendum on Sunday.
The result means facial covering will be banned in all publicly accessible places, including on the streets, in public offices, on public transport, in restaurants, shops and in the countryside.
The controversial proposal gained support of 51.21% of voters and the majority of the country s 26 cantons, according to official provisional results published by the federal government.
The only exceptions include places of worship and other sacred sites. Face coverings will also be allowed if worn for health and safety reasons, because of the weather and in situations where it is considered a local custom to do so, such as at carnivals, according to the text of the proposal published by the Swiss feder
ZURICH: Swiss voters have approved a ban on full facial coverings, including niqab and burqa, in nearly all public places in a closely contested referendum on Sunday, foreign media reported.The.
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