{"id":78353,"date":"2021-09-09T13:11:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=78353"},"modified":"2021-09-19T13:24:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T13:24:57","slug":"uzbekistan-removes-headscarf-ban-in-schools-to-boost-female-attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/78353-uzbekistan-removes-headscarf-ban-in-schools-to-boost-female-attendance\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan Removes Headscarf Ban In Schools To Boost Female Attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f9-\u06f0\u06f9_\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f5\u06f9-\u06f0\u06f2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f9-\u06f0\u06f9_\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f5\u06f9-\u06f0\u06f2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f9-\u06f0\u06f9_\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f5\u06f9-\u06f0\u06f2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f9-\u06f0\u06f9_\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f5\u06f9-\u06f0\u06f2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f9-\u06f0\u06f9_\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f5\u06f9-\u06f0\u06f2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f9-\u06f0\u06f9_\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f5\u06f9-\u06f0\u06f2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Uzbekistan will allow girls to wear headscarves in schools in a bid to ensure devout Muslim families send their daughters to school, the Central Asian country&#8217;s Education Ministry said.<br>Islam is the dominant religion in Uzbekistan, but the authoritarian government is staunchly secular and has retained tight control over the faith in the three decades of independence from the Soviet Union.<br>Education Minister Sherzod Shermatov said on September 4 that the authorities &#8220;intend to allow national headscarves and skullcaps in white or light colours&#8221; in schools after &#8220;the appeals of many parents&#8221;.<br>He said the move was necessary to ensure every child got a secular education.<br>Prototypes of the permitted headscarves presented by Shermatov suggested girls of school age would not be able to cover their chin as is the case with the hijab.<br>Shermatov did not specify what age category the measures would affect.<br>President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has relaxed some controls on state-sanctioned Islam since coming to power in the country in 2016 after the death of long-ruling autocrat Islam Karimov.<br>Earlier this year, Uzbekistan amended its law on freedom of conscience to allow women to wear the hijab in public places &#8212; though not in buildings housing state institutions, such as schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uzbekistan will allow girls to wear headscarves in schools in a bid to ensure devout Muslim families send their daughters to school, the Central Asian country&#8217;s Education Ministry said.Islam is the dominant religion in Uzbekistan, but the authoritarian government is staunchly secular and has retained tight control over the faith in the three decades of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":78605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,31,30],"tags":[1171,96,153],"class_list":["post-78353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-news","category-world","tag-female","tag-headscarf","tag-uzbekistan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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