\u201cTHEME:<\/strong><\/p>\n Creating a Future that Matters for Women and Sport<\/strong><\/p>\n Malala Yousafzai stated that \u201cin the future, women rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.\u201d\u00a0 The South African Women and Sport Foundation (SAWASF) believe this to be true.\u00a0 For this reason, the 2020 SAWASF National Advocacy Conference is entitled \u201cCreating a future that matters for women and Sport.\u201d\u00a0 SAWASF wants women to look at themselves and their circumstances and state vociferously that it is \u201cOur Future on Our Own Terms.\u201d<\/p>\n The Pandemic of Gender-based Violence and Sexual Harassment: It must be stopped now.<\/strong><\/p>\n The fact is that gender-based violence and sexual harassment continue relentlessly as if we still live more than 100 years ago.\u00a0 Reporting of GBV and sexual harassment is harder due to political lack of will, systematic, cultural\/social, and other impediments and practices.\u00a0 The scourge of GBV and sexual harassment has social, economic, health, emotional, and other implications for women and girls.\u00a0 The increase in violence against women must be dealt with urgently and be prioritised politically, economically, and socially through stimulus packages that can deal with the gravity and scale of the challenge facing women and their needs.\u00a0The first speaker <\/strong>will address the political, economic, cultural, and social impact of GBV and sexual harassment.\u00a0Then, Dr. Ani Chroni will address the emotional implications of GBV and sexual harassment, with specific reference to the effect and avoidance of abuse, coping mechanisms, and the recovery process. Following Dr. Chroni, Dr. Gretchen Kerr will address the role of sport organizations in preventing and addressing GBV and sexual harassment.<\/p>\n WSI members continue making impacts in the world of women in sport. Board members, Dr. Chroni and Dr. Kerr, are presenting at the 2020 SAWASF Conference.<\/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\/609"}],"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=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-22-at-1.09.41-PM-300x298.png\")
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