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EGLSF voted to ENGSO Equality Within Sports committee

The ENGSO General Assembly in Visby, Sweden was an important landmark for the EGLSF this year. Our application to be an associate member of ENGSO was accepted, and our board member David Hofstetter was voted to the ENGSO “Equality Within Sports” committee for a two-year term. Other committee members are: Niina Toroi (Chair) – Olympic Team Finland, Ioanna Karyofylli, ???????? ????????????? ????? - Hellenic Paralympic Team, Rachel May - Engso Youth, Anabela Sousa Vaz dos Reis - Confederação do Desporto Portugal. We look forward to working with ENGSO to make sure that LGBT+ rights within sports are represented at the [...]

Sarah Townsend2020-04-19T16:58:15+02:00Monday, June 11th, 2018 @ 13:20|Categories: 2018, Advocacy, Announcements, News, Press Release|Tags: engso, EWS committee, LGBT+ rights in Sport|0 Comments

EGLSF at VOICE dissemination meeting in Vienna

The EGLSF and other European sports partners of the VOICE project on sexual harassment and abuse in sport met in Vienna on June 5 - 6 to finalize the project dissemination strategy. Partners reviewed the education materials produced within the project, provided additional recommendations before final distribution and defined dissemination activities beyond the project’s timeline which concludes end of June. Voices for truth and dignity – combatting sexual violence in European Sport through the voices of those affected (VOICE) - is a two-and-a-half-year project, co-financed by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, giving voices to survivors of sexual violence [...]

Sarah Townsend2020-04-19T16:58:15+02:00Thursday, June 7th, 2018 @ 13:33|Categories: 2018, Advocacy, News, Press Release|0 Comments

EGLSF co-president elected to CC Bureau of EPAS

The EGLSF is pleased to announce that Annette Wachter, co-president, was re-elected to the Consultative Committee (CC) Bureau of the Enlarged partial Agreement on Sport of the Council of Europe (EPAS). The CC is a partnership body which gives its opinion on the programme of activities and provides advice for the decisions of the Governing Board. The CC elected a new Bureau at its meeting on Monday, the 14th of May in Strasbourg, France: Jens Sejer Andersen, Play the Game, CC President, Michal Buchel, FIAS, CC Vice-President, Annette Wachter, EGLSF, CC Bureau member , Laura Capranica, EAS, CC Bureau member Carlos [...]

Sarah Townsend2020-04-19T16:58:15+02:00Thursday, May 24th, 2018 @ 18:53|Categories: 2018, Announcements, EPAS, News, Press Release|Tags: EPAS|0 Comments

EGLSF at VOICE final conference

EGLSF was present at the final conference for the VOICE Erasmus+ Sport project this weekend in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. EGLSF has worked with other stakeholders in the academic and sports worlds to secure support for the victims, generate sound research data and enable the development of contextualised resources for the benefit of the European sport community. The culmination of 2 years work in combatting sexual violence in European Sport through the voices of those affected, this final 2-day conference was a powerful and emotional presentation of the results of the study, and the new educational resources developed for the European sport community. This conference [...]

Sarah Townsend2020-04-19T16:58:15+02:00Saturday, May 5th, 2018 @ 22:22|Categories: 2018, Advocacy, External, Press Release, Projects|Tags: Erasmus, VOICE|0 Comments

EGLSF attend Football Pride Week

From the 05 – 09 October 2016, football fans hosted an international conference on homophobia in football. The EGLSF was represented by John Ryan and Sarah Townsend. The much-discussed coming out of an active professional footballer is still pending. Fans are often seen as the main problem in this process. But other football fans, ones that stand up against homophobia and engage for an open football culture, they exist too. Against this background, Football Fans Against Homophobia (FFAH), Queer Football Fanclubs (QFF) and Football Supporters Europe (FSE), together with the Federation of Gays and Lesbians in Berlin-Brandenburg (LSVD) are for [...]

EGLSF2016-11-02T13:16:58+01:00Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 12:17|Categories: 2016, 2016, Euro Pride House 2016, News, Projects, Sport|0 Comments