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Gender Equality on the Agenda of International Sports Movement IWG has recently had meetings with some of the most illustrious international sport organizations: SportAccord, International Olympic Committee, Association for International Sport for All – TAFISA, Association of Summer Olympic International Federations and Peace and Sport. We have also met governmental organizations such as UNESCO, Sport for Development and Peace International Working Group and European Union.
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The 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Based Violence 2011 draws attention to sport November 23, 2011 marked the launch of the “16 Days Campaign Against Gender Based Violence” in Lusaka and in many other countries too. This campaign is a global effort to draw attention to gender based violence experienced most frequently and intensely by women mainly as a result of their unequal power positions in families, sport and society. By focusing on gender-based violence, the idea is to consider and share actions to be taken against it.
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Jamaica Honours Netball President Netball is a women’s team sport that is changing the world, and world netball’s leading figure, Molly Rhone, President of the International Federation of Netball Associations, has recently been awarded one of her country’s highest honours, the Order of Jamaica.
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The Anita White Foundation goes from strength to strength The Anita White Foundation (AWF) was successfully launched at the University of Chichester on September 14th 2011. There is a report, photos and a video online at www.chi.ac.uk/awf. In attendance were guests from the women and sport movement from as far as Japan, Finland and North America as well as the UK including past and present staff, students and Governors of the University. Among them were 14 people who had attended the first international conference on women and sport held in Brighton in 1994.
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Ms. Květa Pecková-Jeriová – born with skis on Ms. KVĚTA PECKOVÁ-JERIOVÁ represented Czechoslovakia at cross-country skiing for the years 1974-84. In this article she shares her story about becoming a successful athlete in the sport she loves, cross-country skiing. In her story she tells of the moments of joy and success in addition to the misfortunes she encountered during her sporting career.
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Women and Sport in South Korea
From the past up to the present day it has not been hard to find a healthy list of famous women in sports in South Korea. Not only women involved in professional sports, but also participants in international sports organizations. They are inspiring for a lot of young women to work in sports organizations or to pursue careers in professional athletics.
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Finnish Athletics development program for female athletes Athletics in Finland provides a great source of pride for the Finns. Having such a small population, they value the athletes that represent the country at a national and international level. In 2007, the Finnish Athletics Federation developed a programme that would fulfil some specific aims set out to improve the athletics experience for female athletes. One of these aims was to increase the amount women athletes participating in training groups to 50%.The development programme has allowed female athletes in Finland to develop themselves not only physical but mentally.
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Sydney Scoreboard gains momentum! JOHANNA ADRIAANSE, IWG Co-chair, is pleased to share with you that the Sydney Scoreboard has gained momentum. So far 32 countries have contributed to the project by providing information about women’s representation on Boards of their National Sport Federations and many more countries have pledged their support. The information includes the ratio of women’s directors, gender of the President and Secretary-General for each sport. The Sydney Scoreboard, legacy of the 5th IWG World Conference on Women and Sport, is the only project of its kind in the world documenting the gender composition of sport Boards. We hope that making the facts visible will be an impetus for sport organisations to get more women on their Boards.
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Beyond Sport summit introduced many award winner projects In Capetown, South Africa on 5-8 December, the third Summit of the sport development organization “Beyond Sport” was successfully staged with over 1,000 participants. The Summit is a unique annual event designed to celebrate, promote, and drive forward sport-led social transformation.
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Costa Rica establishes a national strategy to improve women’s sport Just after both the Ministry of Sport and the Olympic Committee of Costa Rica signed the Brighton Declaration in September 2011, meetings were held between the major stakeholders to begin the planning of a “National Strategy”and capitalize on the initiation of their relationship with the global women’s sport community.
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Upcoming Events January 1 - March 31
Additional upcoming events can be found from the IWG Calendar. You can submit events here.
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