Yaker v. France, Communication No. 2747/2016, CCPR/C/123/D/2747/2016

Yaker v. France, the United Nations Human Rights Committee's own 2018 communication decision, found that France's face covering ban violated Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, reaching the opposite conclusion to the European Court of Human Rights on comparable facts. Its strength is that it is the Committee's own decision, an authoritative international human rights body's reasoned ruling. Its limit is that international human rights committee views are not binding court judgments in the way a domestic or regional court's ruling is, and the European Court's contrary judgment should also be checked.