French athletes have been barred from wearing the hijab, or Muslim headscarf, at the Paris Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
France imposed the ban on its national team players as it prepares to host the Games from July 26 to August 11 and the Paralympics from August 28 to September 8.
\nFrench Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera initially announced the ban on September 24, 2023.
\nA few days later, Oudea-Castera, who was a guest of the French political show \u201cDimanche en Politique\u201d, confirmed that no woman in her country’s delegation would wear a headscarf during the Paris Olympics.
\nFollowing the announcement of the ban, Marta Hurtado, the spokeswoman for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said in a statement on Sept. 26 that the ban was not right.
\n\u201cNo one should impose on a woman what she needs to wear or not wear,” Hurtado said.
\nOn May 24 this year, Amnesty International and several other organisations came together to send a letter on the ban to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the organisation responsible for organising the Olympic Games.
\nIt called on the IOC to make a public appeal to sports authorities in France to lift all restrictions on French athletes wearing the headscarf, both at the Paris Olympic Games and at all sporting events.
\nIn its response, the IOC said France’s headscarf ban was outside the remit of the committee and that \u201cfreedom of religion is interpreted in many different ways by different states.”
\nSubsequently, in a press release dated July 16, Amnesty International said the headscarf ban demonstrates the existence of the country’s \u201cdiscriminatory double standard\u201d policy.
\nIt reiterated that the ban on the participation of veiled French athletes at the Olympic Games violates international human rights law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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