{"id":1104,"date":"2022-07-14T16:04:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2022-07-14T19:34:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T19:34:46","slug":"wsi_iapesgw_statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wsi_iapesgw_statement\/","title":{"rendered":"WSI,\u202fand\u202fIAPESGW\u202fStatement\u202fin response to\u202fSports and Rights Alliance article"},"content":{"rendered":"

As major international organizations for women in sport and physical education, we express our deep concern on the recent article \u201cIOC heeds calls to embed rights\u201d published by Sport and Rights Alliance (https:\/\/sportandrightsalliance.org\/olympics-ioc-heeds-calls-) and Sportanddev.org on June 7, 2022 (https:\/\/www.sportanddev.org\/en\/article\/news\/ioc-heeds-calls-embed-rights?mc_cid=dde93f6ddf&mc_eid=5d06848270).<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

WSI,\u202fand\u202fIAPESGW\u202fStatement\u202fin response to\u202fSports and Rights Alliance article,\u202f\u2018IOC heeds calls to embed\u202frights\u2019 <\/i>as appearing in Sportanddev.org website\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0July 2022<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

As major international organizations for women in sport and physical education, we express our deep concern on the recent article \u201c<\/span>IOC heeds calls to embed rights<\/span><\/a>\u201d published by Sport and Rights Alliance (<\/span>https:\/\/sportandrightsalliance.org\/olympics-ioc-heeds-calls-<\/span><\/a>) and Sportanddev.org on June 7, 2022 (<\/span>https:\/\/www.sportanddev.org\/en\/article\/news\/ioc-heeds-calls-embed-rights?mc_cid=dde93f6ddf&mc_eid=5d06848270<\/span><\/a>).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We are in complete agreement that human rights issues need to be addressed across all persons, but gender-based issues on human rights were absent in the article implying they are no longer a matter of concern. Social justice for all persons must include mention of issues specific to girls and women. These issues cannot be merged\/submerged into other human rights challenges.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As a consortium of women in sport organizations, we also echo Mr. Eli Wolff\u2019s statement in the article \u201cPersons with disabilities are a critically affected group in sport and in society and are protected and recognized by the United Nations and specifically in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Persons with disabilities are more than 15 percent of the global population and must be recognized in the human rights strategies and all equality and nondiscrimination policies of the International Olympic Committee.\u201d However, it must not be forgotten that girls and women with disabilities, representing 7.5 percent of the global population, frequently face more pre<\/span>\ufffc<\/span><\/span>carious issues than those of their male counterparts.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, girls and women with disabilities, lesbians and transgender females, Asian Pacific females and indigenous girls and women are much more prone to be victims of violence and exclusion than their male counterparts.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This joint statement by WSI and IAPESGW, expresses our deep concerns on the failure to address gender specific issues for girls and women in sport in the recent article. We are calling for sport for development (S4D) professionals, as well as the IOC, to include girls and women as one of the critical populations (i.e., particularly at-risk populations) within all emerging Human Right Strategic Frameworks. Girls and women in sport and other marginalized social groups (e.g., disability, race, ethnicity, religion, and language) are confronted with layers of oppression often referred to as intersectionality. The gender-based issues should not be silently embedded into other issues.\u00a0 These are far from \u2018settled\u2019 issues and need to be addressed clearly and separately by the sport for development community as well as the elite sport ecosystem.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Carole A. Oglesby, <\/span><\/b>PhD, PhD, S4D professional<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Diane Huffman, <\/span><\/b>President<\/span> WomenSport International\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rosa Diketmuller, <\/span><\/b>President IAPESGW<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As major international organizations for women in sport and physical education, we express our deep concern on the recent article \u201cIOC heeds calls to embed rights\u201d published by Sport and Rights Alliance (https:\/\/sportandrightsalliance.org\/olympics-ioc-heeds-calls-) and Sportanddev.org on June 7, 2022 (https:\/\/www.sportanddev.org\/en\/article\/news\/ioc-heeds-calls-embed-rights?mc_cid=dde93f6ddf&mc_eid=5d06848270).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}