Pressure against the hijab ban for French athletes is ramping up. Human rights activists asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to lift France’s ban on athletes wearing headscarves. The French government enforces this ban in the name of secularism, barring people from wearing religious symbols in schools, at work, and during sporting events like the Olympics. In the letter to the committee, with Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch among the signers, critics argue the ban marginalizes Muslim athletes as well contradicting the IOC’s gender equality goals for the Paris 2024 Olympics. (The Guardian)
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