The United Nations on Monday expressed concern about the Taliban’s arrest of Afghan women and girls for their alleged failure to comply with the authorities’ dress code. In May ...

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 from the Paris ...

Players prepare before a women's basketball tournament where players can wear a headscarf, in Aubervilliers near Paris, on April 27. Image: AP/Thomas Padilla sports A basketball player was sidelined ...

PARIS (AP) — 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.

A group of headscarf-wearing soccer players called “Les Hijabeuses,” who campaign against the ban, say the new bill would unfairly force Muslim women to choose between wearing a headscarf or ...

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 ...

A player wearing a headscarf warms-up before a basketball game, in Aubervilliers near Paris, Sunday, April 27, 2025.

Former player Salimata Sylla poses before a women's basketball tournament where players can wear a headscarf, in Aubervilliers near Paris, Sunday, April 27, 2025.

A headscarf ban is keeping basketball players off the court. A new bill could make it law in France By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and ALEX TURNBULL, Associated PressUpdatedMay 26, 2025 7:58 a.m.