RELIGIONS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – A spokesperson for the UN office on human rights has intervened in the tow over France’s decision to ban athletes representing France from wearing headscarves during the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Marta Hurtado said: “No one should impose on a woman what she needs to wear, or not wear”.
Last weekend, France’s minister for sport, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, have a media interview re-affirming the state’s commitment to secularism and its opposition to the display of religious symbols during sporting events, spelling out: “Which means that the representatives of our delegations, in our French teams, will not wear the headscarf.”