A United Nations report has indicated that compulsory religious worship in schools is a violation of children’s human rights.
The document produced by the UN Committee on children rights further condemns teaching children about God.
The report compiled by a group of ‘independent experts of high moral character’ stands its take that teaching children about God is like child labour.
The group members further demanded the rise against laws enforcing daily acts of Christian worship at schools maintaining that such practice if allowed to go on is capable of hampering a child’s freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
A excerpt from the report reads: “the Committee is concerned that pupils are required by law to take part in a daily religious worship. Which is, wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character in publicly funded schools in England and Wales. And, that children do not have the right to withdraw from such worship without parental permission before entering the sixth form.”
Stating the above as a basis, the committee recommended that “the State party repeal legal provisions for compulsory attendance at collective worship in publicly funded schools and ensure that children can independently exercise the right to withdraw from religious worship at school.”