Responding to the decision today from the Conseil d’État, which ruled that the French Football Federation (FFF) does not need to change its discriminatory policy that effectively prohibits Muslim women players who wear a headscarf from participating in competitive football matches, Anna Blus, Amnesty International’s Researcher – Women’s Rights in Europe, said: “The deeply disappointing […]
Every sport has a very strict dress code / uniform for competitions. The idea is that everyone has to follow the same rules. Now enforcing those rules becomes dicriminatrory just because amnesty said so.