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Muslim groups in Belgium file a legal challenge to new mandatory sex education

Muslim groups in Belgium file a legal challenge to new mandatory sex education

Published October 03,2023


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Organizations representing the Muslim group in Belgium have filed a authorized problem with the Constitutional Court relating to the latest enactment of “mandatory sexual education” in main and secondary colleges, significantly within the French-speaking areas of the nation. They argue that this requirement is unconstitutional.

The Belgian Islamic Coordination Board (BIK), consisting of seven organizations, together with the Belgian Religious Foundation, has taken the difficulty to the judiciary, citing issues concerning the regulation’s compatibility with basic freedoms and values.

The controversial regulation, which mandates sexual schooling in main and secondary colleges, was handed by the federal parliament on September 7, sparking protests, significantly among the many Muslim group.

In their assertion, BİK expressed issues that the regulation goes towards common household values and raises worries concerning the messages it’ll convey to younger youngsters. They additionally voiced issues about potential implications for spiritual freedoms and parental rights to information their youngsters’s schooling in accordance with their beliefs.

Belgium has had rules requiring sexuality schooling in all grades since 2012, however the brand new regulation makes it necessary for each Sixth-grade main college and 4th-grade secondary college scholar to take part in these programs within the French-speaking areas, together with Brussels.

Source: www.anews.com.tr