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16 July 2024 France Islamophobia Amnesty report challenges French sports hijab bans
14 March 2024 France Islamophobia Council of Europe and Commission open first coordination meeting
8 March 2024 France Islamophobia Athletes and rights groups demand end to basketball hijab ban
12 October 2023 France Islamophobia Amnesty challenges basketball rules excluding hijab-wearing players
3 October 2023 France Islamophobia Amnesty calls for repeal of France’s school abaya ban
29 June 2023 France Islamophobia Les Hijabeuses’ football headscarf challenge faces legal setback
28 June 2023 France Islamophobia Amnesty intervenes in European challenge to CCIF dissolution
22 June 2022 France Islamophobia Amnesty contests legal setback for burkini access in Grenoble
16 May 2022 France Islamophobia Grenoble council votes to permit burkinis after women’s campaign
1 March 2022 France Islamophobia ECRI publishes revised recommendations against anti-Muslim racism
27 September 2021 France Islamophobia Human Rights Watch defends anti-discrimination organizing after CCIF ruling
4 December 2020 France Islamophobia Human Rights Watch challenges the dissolution of an anti-Islamophobia group
20 November 2020 France Islamophobia Amnesty opposes the threatened dissolution of CCIF
3 November 2020 France Islamophobia Amnesty warns against discriminatory measures after terrorist attacks
10 November 2019 France Islamophobia Paris march rejects Islamophobia and anti-Muslim violence
23 October 2018 France Islamophobia UN committee finds violations in two women’s niqab complaints
26 August 2016 France Islamophobia LDH and CCIF win suspension of a municipal burkini ban
4 February 2016 France Islamophobia Amnesty documents the human impact of emergency measures
24 November 2015 France Islamophobia Human Rights Watch challenges expanded emergency powers
26 September 2014 France Islamophobia Muslim writers challenge presumed collective guilt
1 July 2014 France Islamophobia Rights advocates contest the European court’s face-veil decision
22 September 2011 France Islamophobia Hind Ahmas and Najate Naït Ali face fines after protesting the veil ban
11 April 2011 France Islamophobia Women protest as France’s public face-covering ban takes effect
10 May 2006 France Racism France holds its first metropolitan national slavery remembrance day
27 October 2005 France Racism The deaths of Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré precede nationwide unrest
15 March 2004 France Racism France legislates against conspicuous religious symbols in public schools
27 February 2004 France Islamophobia Human Rights Watch challenges the proposed school headscarf ban
21 May 2001 France Racism The Taubira law recognizes slavery and slave trading as crimes against humanity
23 August 1996 France Racism Police forcibly evacuate the Saint-Bernard occupation
28 June 1996 France Racism Sans-papiers occupy Saint-Bernard church to demand recognition
2 November 1992 France Islamophobia The Kherouaa judgment overturns a blanket school ban on religious signs
27 November 1989 France Islamophobia The Conseil d’État rejects an automatic incompatibility between headscarves and secular schooling
29 March 1988 France Racism Dulcie September is assassinated outside the ANC office in Paris
6 December 1986 France Racism Police kill Malik Oussekine in Paris
3 December 1983 France Racism The equality march reaches Paris with mass support
15 October 1983 France Racism The March for Equality and Against Racism leaves Marseille
17 October 1961 France Racism Paris police violently repress an Algerian demonstration
14 December 1960 France Racism UNESCO adopts a convention against discrimination in education
19 September 1956 France Racism Black writers and artists convene to challenge cultural subordination
18 July 1950 France Racism UNESCO issues a scientific statement challenging racial myths
10 December 1948 France Racism The Universal Declaration sets out rights without racial distinction
9 December 1948 France Racism The UN adopts the Genocide Convention
19 February 1919 France Racism The Pan-African Congress connects struggles against imperial rule
4 February 1794 France Racism The Convention abolishes colonial slavery