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French Olympians can’t put on hijabs. Human rights group says its discrimination
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French Olympians can’t put on hijabs. Human rights group says its discrimination

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When the 2024 Olympics begin this week, France gained’t permit its athletes to put on headscarves throughout the video games – seemingly in distinction with the Olympic constitution’s requires respect of faith and safety of human rights.

A latest report from Amnesty Worldwide calls France’s restrictions on non secular apparel blatant discrimination and a researcher for the human rights nonprofit instructed NPR’s Morning Version that, past being unfair, the transfer may trigger systemic points for ladies athletes in France.

The bans have a wider affect on ladies in sports activities, dashing the hopes of feminine athletes in France, mentioned Anna Błuś, a researcher for Amnesty Worldwide. Novice soccer, basketball and volleyball leagues additionally don’t allow ladies to put on hijabs throughout play.

”They get to some extent of continually being requested to take away their clothes, to surrender part of their id in the event that they need to progress,” Błuś mentioned. ”And plenty of the ladies that I spoke to mentioned that they did not see a future for themselves in France and that they had been planning to go away the nation and to compete for different nationwide groups.”

The technical motive behind France’s ban

The Worldwide Olympic Committee mentioned in an announcement to NPR that the host nation considers athletes representing it as civil servants.

“This means that they must respect the principles of secularism and neutrality, which, according to French law, means prohibition from wearing outwardly religious symbols, including the hijab, veil and headscarf when they are acting in their official capacity and on official occasions as members of the French national team,” the assertion learn. “The same secular approach also applies, for instance, to civil servants and teachers.”

France’s sports activities minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has strengthened the concept the nation’s nationwide staff is taken into account a part of the civil service — so is topic to the identical restrictions that apply to anybody in public service in France.

A local resident dives in the Seine, in Paris on July 17, after the mayor of Paris swim in the river to demonstrate that it is clean enough to host the outdoor swimming events at the Paris Olympics later this month. Despite an investment of 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) to prevent sewage leaks into the waterway, the Seine has been causing suspense in the run-up to the opening of the Paris Games on July 26 after repeatedly failing water quality tests. But since the beginning of July, with heavy rains finally giving way to sunnier weather, samples have shown the river to be ready for the open-water swimming and triathlon -- and for 65-year-old Hidalgo. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP) (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

Błuś mentioned these secularist insurance policies are being unfairly utilized to French athletes.

“We do not agree that athletes on the French national team should be seen as public servants,” she instructed Morning Version. “They should not be required to carry out a role that goes beyond what they’re meant to do, which is to participate in sports, to compete for their country. And they should also not be expected to follow their government’s political choices or policies that actually discriminate and violate human rights.”

Basketball participant Hélène Bâ is amongst French athletes who’ve been excluded from skilled sports activities competitions since October 2023.

She’s one of many founders of the Baskets Pour Toutes collective (Basketball For All) in France. Her story is documented within the Amnesty Worldwide report the place she mentioned that “everyone sees you going from the bench to the ladders and for them it’s just the case of ‘You Cannot Play’ but for you it’s a walk of shame.”

This digital story was edited by Obed Manuel.

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