Women are banned in this part of EU

Karthick Nambi
Writers Guild
Published in
3 min readMar 13, 2019

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Source:Wiki

Human rights is treating every human being equal irrespective of their Age,Color,Creed,Gender etc. European Union is championing the idea of human equality more than any other organisation in the world.

Do you know there is a mountain in European Union where Women are not allowed. Enter Mount Athos

Mount Athos is in Greece and in under the direct jurisdiction of European Union with some autonomy.

Refer Part 5 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:42000A0922(06) .

Joint Declaration concerning Mount Athos which gives special privilege to Mount Athos on the grounds of “Spiritual and Religious grounds”.

Mount Athos has been the center of Eastern orthodox Christianity for a long time which 20 monasteries situation in mountain peninsula with approximately 2000 monks. The entire region works like a monastery. Its believed that after Jesus Christ was crucified Virgin Mary left for Cyprus and her boat went off course and ended in Mount Athos. Looking at the beauty of the place Mary asked God to gift her the place which God promptly did and from that day onward was the garden of mother of God.

Due to this reason women are not allowed to enter the region as its considered sacred. In…

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