World Players Association
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The World Players Association is the exclusive global association of organised players & athletes across professional sport.
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🗣️ Executive director of WNBPA Terri Jackson, #WNBA players #LayshiaClarendon , #BreannaStewart & others call for the end of the hijab ban in French basketball 🏀 to ensure all women + girls have equal access to sport.
Sign the petition👉 change.org/p/no-to-articl…
🏀 In 2017, FIBA overturned its hijab ban in response to calls from US athletes led by Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir Athlete Ally Equality League Human Rights Watch World Players Association & other #SRA partners.
Yet still in 2024, the French federation has ignored these changes. ❌
sportandrightsalliance.org/france-ensure-…
Over 80 athletes, including #WNBA star Breanna Stewart & #Olympian Ibitihaj Muhammad, wrote to Fédération Française de BasketBall & FIBA in an open letter today in solidarity with the women & girls disproportionately affected by headwear restrictions in #France .
👉 sportandrightsalliance.org/france-ensure-…
'Collectively we are all working towards that goal, and the more athletes who can jump on board, the more we can change our sports for the better.” - Alex Chidiac
More to come in 2024 in World Players' Roar Room for Gender Equity in Sport Conferences: uniglobalunion.org/news/world-pla…
🗣️“I think that’s a moment that really changed women’s football.”
Lydia Williams joined fellow athletes on a panel discussing women's sport and gender equality at the World Players Association Roar Room Conference ⬇️
#SupportingThePlayers
pfa.net.au/news/williams-…