A contentious bill backed by right-wing politicians that would ban headscarves in all sporting competitions has cleared its first legislative hurdle in the Senate ...

Thousands of young Muslim women in France are sidelined from competitive sport because of rules in several disciplines ...

A group of headscarf-wearing soccer players called “Les Hijabeuses,” who campaign against the ban, say the new bill would unfairly force Muslim women to choose between wearing a headscarf or playing a ...

Supporters say it is necessary to protect secularism, while opponents have denounced it as discriminatory, Islamophobic, and ...

Gabriel Attal, the head of President Macron's party, said he wanted to ban under-15s from wearing Muslim headscarves in ...

After France’s highest administrative court ruled ... He says the principles of French secularism cannot be used to justify the headscarf ban because it’s not the role of a secular state ...

Jordan Bardella, leader of France's far-right National Rally ... The government is also pushing for a new law to ban the headscarf in domestic sports competitions, a move critics of the law ...

France stands alone with religious headwear ban Amnesty International said the new bill targets Muslim women and girls by excluding them from sporting competitions if they wear a headscarf or ...