Asian football is in a crisis. That’s because the leaders of the sport in Bahrain, Afghanistan and Iran are not effectively using their positions at the top of the football food chain to carry out FIFA’s new human rights policy ...
Bounding into a meeting room with a smile at FIFA’s Zurich headquarters, Federico Addiechi, the governing body’s head of sustainability and diversity, greets SSJ with some good news. Hakeem al-Araibi, the dissident footballer from Bahrain, has finally been released from the Thai ...
FIFA has addressed a letter to the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand concerning the situation of the player Hakeem Al Araibi. The letter can be found here. ...
Craig Foster wields football as a weapon. He uses it to fight injustice, to preserve human rights and to ease suffering in his native Australia and around the world. And if he ever doubted just how powerful this sport can ...
Wellington Phoenix will be offering 2018/19 season tickets for recently resettled refugees and people from low socioeconomic communities in the Wellington region serving as a recognition of the important role sport plays in building bridges between individuals and across communities. The Football ...
A center to foster respect for human rights in the world of sport has been launched in Geneva. Founding members of the Advisory Council of the new Centre – including the ILO – met for its inaugural bi-annual strategic meeting on ...
The establishment on June 25, 2018 of a new Center for Sport and Human Rights has the potential to curb human rights abuses tied to sports and assist victims, Human Rights Watch said today. The Geneva-based center will also address ...
Sponsors have a responsibility, within their own operations and throughout their supply chains, to respect human rights. Sporting events are no different from any other business relationship in terms of needing to proactively take account of potential human rights risks. ‘...
The new FIFA requirements on human rights in bidding and hosting the 2026 World Cup could raise the bar for future sports events if they are fully carried out, Human Rights Watch said today. FIFA voters will select the 2026 ...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino and Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland met today in Strasbourg to discuss how to better promote human rights in sports. The meeting followed an exchange of views between the FIFA President and the Council ...
