A basketball player was sidelined for her headscarf. France may now ban them in all sports - Thousands of young Muslim women ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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