Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PARIS — Diaba Konaté was named the NCAA college basketball Big West conference's best defensive player of the year in 2023-2024.

Human rights and sports organisations urge the International Olympic Committee to publicly call on sporting authorities in France to overturn all bans on athletes wearing the hijab in French sport.

The ban on French women athletes who wear headscarves from competing at the Olympic Games breaches international human rights laws and exposes the discriminatory hypocrisy of French authorities and ...

In advance of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, the undersigned organisations are writing to ask the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to publicly call on sporting authorities in ...

French lawmakers must reject a discriminatory bill that would ban the wearing of “ostensibly religious” clothing and symbols during competitions in all French sports, Amnesty International said ahead ...

In the lead up to the Olympics and Paralympics Summer Games of 2024 in Paris, Amnesty International published a damning report on the host country’s decision to bar its athletes from wearing a hijab ...

The French parliament recently voted in favor of enshrining the right to abortion into the country's constitution. While crowds celebrated outside, the slogan "my body my choice" was projected onto ...

PARIS — Diaba Konaté was named the NCAA college basketball Big West conference's best defensive player of the year in 2023-2024. In her senior year playing for the University of California, Irvine, ...