On 05 July 2020, 1.200 women demonstrated in Brussels for the right to wear the headscarf on the premises of higher education institutions such as colleges.
The protest was organised after a ruling of the Constitutional Court of Belgium decreed that a ban on wearing visible religious symbols (as is the headscarf) is not in violation of religious freedoms and the right to education. The court thus ruled in favour of a Brussels school that has such a regulation in place. In the meantime, some of the major colleges and universities in Belgium communicated that they have no intention to institute such a regulation.
