Human rights groups say prohibition has left Muslim athletes feeling ‘invisibilised, excluded and humiliated’
The issue of athletes and headscarves at the Olympics has long rumbled in the background in the lead-up to the Paris Games.The issue of athletes and headscarves at the Olympics has long rumbled in the background in the lead-up to the Paris Games.to help overturn a ban on French athletes wearing headscarves, arguing that the prohibition had left many Muslim athletes being “invisibilised, excluded and humiliated”.
The issue of athletes and headscarves at the Olympics, however, has long rumbled in the background in the lead-up to the Games. Last September, France’s minister for sport highlighted the government’s commitment to secularism to explain that athletes representing Francesaying that women should not be forced to abide by dress codes, while the IOC was swift to say that France’s restrictions would not apply to athletes from other countries.
Among those who backed the letter was the French basketball player Hélène Ba, the co-founder of Basket pour Toutes, or Basketball for All. “Shouldn’t the French team represent the whole society in its diversity?” she told reporters, describing the bans as a “clear violation of the Olympic charter” as well as an infringement of fundamental rights and freedoms.
It adds: “This important step would ensure the Olympics and Paralympics leave a true legacy towards gender equality in France by ensuring all women and girls can have their right to non-discrimination respected and protected, and their right to participate in sports guaranteed.
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