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The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has devoted its final observations with regards to a recent two-week meeting on Turkey to the controversial ban in the country on the use of Islamic head coverings in the public sphere, asking Turkey to end its discrimination against covered women, Ermenihaber reported.

The request came on Tuesday after a CEDAW session on Turkey. According to the final observations, the ban on the headscarf has negative impacts on women’s participation in such fields as education, work, health and the political and public spheres.

CEDAW said Turkey failed to implement the decisions approved during meeting in 2005 and still continues to use “the law on headscarves.”

The committee urged Turkey to eliminate the drawbacks by the next meeting in 2014 and called on to end discrimination against women.

Turkey became a signatory to CEDAW in 1985. The convention it joined, seeks to eliminate discrimination against women, including judicial and de facto discrimination. Signatory countries are obliged to fulfill the requirements of the convention.