Ann Clwyd’s Early Day Motion on the Sikh Case

Posted on January 14th, 2008 filed in Ann Clwyd

Aberdare’s MP Ann Clwyd has tabled an Early Day Motion in Parliament on the Aberdare Girls School Sikh case.

An Early Day Motion enables an MP to express their opinions on a subject and gather support. There is no guarantee of a debate in Parliament.

The EDM reads thus :

That this House takes serious note of the continued refusal of the Governing Body of Aberdare Girls’ School to permit a 14 year-old Sikh girl from wearing to school her Kara, a small Sikh bangle that is an article of her faith; is concerned to learn the punishment for the girl for her insistence on wearing her modest Kara was at first keeping her in isolation for nine weeks and then on 5th November, excluding her from school; and calls upon the UK Government to work with the Welsh Assembly and to do everything within its power to ensure the girl is immediately reinstated as her treatment clearly amounts to discrimination and contravenes the Race Relations Act 1976.

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