{"id":1267,"date":"2023-07-09T14:11:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T14:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2023-07-11T17:05:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T17:05:33","slug":"wsi_unesco_fit4life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wsi_unesco_fit4life\/","title":{"rendered":"WomenSport International Commitment to UNESCO Fit4Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WomenSport International (WSI) Presdent,\u00a0Diane Huffman and the\u00a0Emeritus Director,\u00a0Dr. Carole Oglesby released the statement on\u00a0the Revision of the UNESCO Charter on Physical Education and Sport, The Kazan Action Plan especially Action 4, The launch of the Global Observatory and now, Fit4Life.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1268\" src=\"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/KAP-and-Fit4Life-300x221.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/KAP-and-Fit4Life-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/KAP-and-Fit4Life.png 731w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1269\" src=\"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WSI-Logo_f-300x79.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WSI-Logo_f-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WSI-Logo_f-768x202.png 768w, https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WSI-Logo_f-1024x270.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>June 29, 2023<br \/>\nHonorable Ministers<\/p>\n<p>UNESCO leadership esp Sport and Fit4Life<\/p>\n<p>Distinguished Stakeholders, Observers and delegations<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since its founding, WomenSport International has been a leading and progressive voice of the international women&#8217;s sport advocacy organizations. We have inhabited, and lead, work on behalf of the opening of sport for girls and women in all their diversity since our formation.<\/p>\n<p>Founding members of WSI attended the Beijing Women\u2019s Conference and were instrumental in the addition of three references to women in sport and physical activity in the Beijing platform for Action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have celebrated with you recent milestones such as the Revision of the UNESCO Charter on Physical Education and Sport, The Kazan Action Plan especially Action 4, The launch of the Global Observatory and now, Fit4Life.<\/p>\n<p>Our organization is rich in human capacity in research, management, and most especially the delicate balance required for the\u00a0<em>opening of doors\u00a0<\/em>to new roles and opportunities for girls and women in regions, countries, and times with strict barriers to such openings.\u00a0 We have the research background and cultural awareness of gender discrimination processes and the psycho-social training to utilize gender equitable sport and physical activity to end practices and traditions such as early marriage, restrictions on girls to enter school or play sports,\u00a0and all forms of gender violence.<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of the achievements of the launch of the\u00a0Global Observatory, Fit4Life and the Gender Equity Game Plan,\u00a0<strong>we promise<\/strong>\u00a0our passionate commitment to utilize all our human and other resources to advance these initiatives. We look forward to collaborative dialogue with many partners to make our promise specific and concrete.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Diane Huffman, WomenSport International President<\/p>\n<p>Carole Oglesby, WomenSport International\u00a0Emeritus Director<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WomenSport International (WSI) Presdent,\u00a0Diane Huffman and the\u00a0Emeritus Director,\u00a0Dr. Carole Oglesby released the statement on\u00a0the Revision of the UNESCO Charter on Physical Education and Sport, The Kazan Action Plan especially Action 4, The launch of the Global Observatory and now, Fit4Life.<\/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\/1267"}],"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=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}