MONTREAL—Groups defending the rights of minorities and women came together Friday to denounce Quebec’s new legislation restricting the wearing of religious symbols. Seven organizations including Amnesty International and the province’s main women’s federation attacked the secularism bill as discriminatory. ( Graham Hughes / THE CANADIAN PRESS )France-Isabelle Langlois, Amnesty International’s director for French-speaking Canada, said the Coalition Avenir Quebec bill contravenes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees freedom of thought, conscience and religion. “In renouncing our international commitments, we undermine our international credibility,” she told a news conference in Montreal. “Are we prepared as a society to tell a teacher that she will be the last of her kind?

Source: thestar March 29, 2019 20:36 UTC