Actually it is. The charter is very clear that the individual has a right to manifest his religious beliefs alone or with others.

The UN human rights treaties and CEDAW both say that women have the same right to participate in the civil, political, social, economic lives of their communities on the same basis that men do.

So what happens when a Muslim (or Christian or Jewish) man says, for example, my freedom of religious expression is curtailed by a woman appearing out of doors without a head covering?

Men are not required to cover their head out of doors, so clearly we have an inequality here. On the one hand, there is the woman’s right to dress as she pleases, and on the other the man’s right to freedom of religion.

This case and others like it illustrate exactly why rights inhere in individuals and not collectives. Because collectives contain individuals whose interests are often irreconcilable.

The solution in this case is to recognize that the man’s right to religious expression extends to his own wardrobe choices, and his right to associate with others who share his views, and his right to attempt to persuade others to share that view as well.

His right to freedom of religion does not extend so far as to allow him to force his preferences on others, since that would violate their dignity and autonomy.