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- The lower house of the Parliament of France has passed a bill that would ban discrimination over the texture, length, colour or style of hair.
- The bill will amend the existing anti-discrimination measures in the labour code.
- The bill will support black people, who face discrimination at the workplace due to their hair.
- Olivier Serva, a Black MP from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, has drafted the bill.
- The bill has been approved by 44 legislators while two voted against it. It will become law after the approval by the Senate.
- 23 states in the United States have passed legislation for protecting people from hair discrimination in the workplace and public schools.
- France will become the first country in the world to recognise discrimination based on hair at a national level.
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