UN: End religious criteria in schools

Stop discriminating against children on religious grounds was the blunt message delivered to the State by the UN committee reviewing the country’s protection of children’s rights.

They also called for the children of Catholic priests to be given the right to know who their father is and be entitled to be cared for by him, and receive necessary psychological treatment.

The UN committee of international experts did not accept many of the State’s arguments put to them at a special day-long hearing in Geneva last month.