After France’s highest administrative court ruled in 2023 that the soccer federation can ban headscarves in matches, the Hijabeuses have lodged a complaint with the European Court of Human ...

Thousands of young Muslim women in France are sidelined from competitive sport because of rules in several disciplines including basketball that ban uniforms and other clothing carrying a ...

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 ...

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 ...

We will continue to fight until this choice is no longer imposed.” After France’s highest administrative court ruled in 2023 that the soccer federation can ban headscarves in matches, the Hijabeuses ...

A Headscarf Ban Is Keeping Basketball Players off the Court. A New Bill Could Make It Law in France PARIS (AP) — Salimata Sylla was about to lead her team onto the basketball court, as she had ...

PARIS — Salimata Sylla was about to lead her team onto the basketball court, as she had done many times before. On that Sunday morning, she and her teammates had completed a three-hour bus trip ...

After France’s highest administrative court ruled in 2023 that the soccer federation can ban headscarves in matches, the Hijabeuses have lodged a complaint with the European Court of Human ...