Dress codes should not be imposed on women, spokesperson says, after Paris Games ban affecting French athletes
The UN has weighed in on France’s debate about secularism and women’s clothing, saying women should not be forced to abide by dress codes, after the French government said athletes representing France would be barred from wearing headscarves during the 2024“No one should impose on a woman what she needs to wear, or not wear,” Marta Hurtado, a spokesperson for the UN’s human rights office, said on Tuesday after she was asked whether the ban met the UN’s criteria on human rights.
The ministry said on Tuesday that Oudéa-Castéra’s remarks were in line with French law and the “public service mission” expected of French athletes, meaning they must remain neutral and not express religious opinions or convictions. On Tuesday Hurtado pointed to France’s obligation, as a signatory to the international convention eliminating discrimination against women, to “take all the appropriate measures to modify any social or cultural patterns which are based on the idea of inferiority or superiority of either sexes”.
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