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ILGA Europe annual assembly report

As in previous years, EGLSF was present at the ILGA Europe annual assembly. Our federation is an ILGA member since 2013 and board members Christiana Daneva and Jon Landa held a workshop under the title Play the change: tackling discrimination in and through sports. In the frame of the ILGA Europe conference, under the title MOVEment: Leading Sustainable Change, we shown to attendants some of our members’ best practices, granted thanks to the Pride in Sports project. Çavaria, the Flemish network for lgbtiq rights, collaborated with us in the workshop preparation and presented the campaign Sports4every1 , developed in Flanders and [...]

EGLSF2020-04-19T16:58:21+02:00Tuesday, October 14th, 2014 @ 20:52|Categories: 2014, Advocacy, News|Tags: ilga|0 Comments

‘Respect Diversity’ conference inspires change in European football

The 2014 UEFA ‘Respect Diversity’conference has drawn the attention of European football on issues of diversity and exclusion across the sport. The need to tackle racism and homophobia, give voice to minority groups, promote gender and ethnic diversity in leadership positions and empower players to be role models in fighting discrimination were all significant focus points for the 250 delegates last week. During the two-day event (10 and 11 September) representatives from within football, political and governmental organisations, experts and Fare member delegates representing NGOs and minority groups met in Rome to find solutions and plan action against discrimination in [...]

EGLSF2020-04-19T16:58:21+02:00Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 @ 23:17|Categories: 2014, News|Tags: #2014RespectDiversity, diversity, FARE, UEFA|0 Comments

Third PSS Workshop Discusses Normative Framework, Global Programmes, Anti-Doping, Gender Equality and Discrimination

Renowned experts debated with the PSS project team a broad range of topics during the third PSS workshop taking place from August 31 to September 2 in Berlin. On the agenda were issues such as the existing normative framework to protect young athletes, anti-doping, gender equality, discrimination and safeguarding measures for children implemented at global level. The workshop was successfully concluded and produced excellent input for the PSS toolkit. The presentations of the Berlin workshop can be retrieved from the following website: http://pjp-eu.coe.int/web/pss/workshop-berlin The fourth and last PSS workshop on “lifestyle” tackling issues such as dual careers, match fixing and [...]

EGLSF2014-09-12T10:34:52+02:00Friday, September 12th, 2014 @ 10:34|Categories: 2014, Advocacy, News, Projects|Tags: EU Project, Pro Safe Sports, PSS|0 Comments

New website EGLSF is live

The new website of the EGLSF is finaly live. Like with so many projects, this took us some more time that we expected, but we pulled it off! Since the end of July we soft launched our site. More than 1500 people already visited us and now it's time to go fully live! The first bugs are solved, speed of the website increased a bit and some other 'live' issues has been resolved. We are not there yet, but in the next few months it will be further optimized and new content will be added. The previous website was developed in [...]

EGLSF2020-04-19T16:58:21+02:00Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 @ 8:10|Categories: 2014, Announcements, News|Comments Off

Three exciting job opportunities with ILGA-Europe

ILGA-Europe is currently looking for a Senior Policy Officer, Intern (paid) and Communications and Media Officer (Temporary position) to their staff team in Brussels. More info can be found on their website or click on the positions Senior Policy Officer - Closing date: 17.00 CET, 1 September 2014 Communications and Media Officer (Temporary position) - Closing date: 12.00 CET, 5 september 2014 Internship - 10.00 CET, 27 August 2014

EGLSF2014-08-10T22:41:59+02:00Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 10:05|Categories: 2014, News|Tags: ILGA-Europe|0 Comments