Juda Balje: Shamia isn't a uniform, covered girls should be allowed school

Kosovo Assembly MP Duda Balje, once also head of the Commission for Human Rights, said they are determined to allow education to all covered girls.

The mud in Info Magazine announced that today they have re-acted this topic on the commission and will have a meeting with the Minister of Education to make a change of administrative instruction on the school cover issue.

I am chairman of the Commission for Human Rights, and from my position along with 10 deputies we have opened this subject and have launched initiative for girls with covers to enter school. Some of the local-level schools, directors have allowed schooling for girls with coverings, while some have not”.

Any girl has the right to be educated with a cover. We are very determined on this, and the opposition and the position are on a line, and I believe that this mandate will lead to the end of this issue. We will seek to change administrative guidelines and we will also have meetings with Education Minister”, Balje said.

MP Balje indicated that with the Constitution, the use of religious uniform in school institutions is prohibited as she stressed that the veil would never be a uniform.

“Administratorial instruction says religious uniforms are prohibited, and the veil is not uniform. The girls themselves are either deciding on their parents but mostly decide to cover up. Shamia will never be as a uniform and this should not be treated as a uniform, I will never accept this”.

“thinkers are different but the Constitution as the highest state act, and I as chairman of the Commission demand that each girl be respected the right to education”, Deputy Balje stressed.

Balje stressed that all MPs who are part of this commission, both in position and opposition, are in favour of allowing schooling for covered girls.

If we don't educate girls, we're going to have much bigger problems in the state than the headscarf”, Balje said.