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World Soccer Governing Body Unpins Hijab Ban
March 04, 2012 from Al Jazeera English
Football's international rule makers have agreed to overturn the controversial ban on the wearing of hijabs in matches. The issue had reached the level of the United Nations, which wrote to FIFA to ask for the law to be scrapped. Al Jazeera's Lee Wellings reports from Surrey, England.
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