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[UEFA.com] ‘Promoting diversity through football’

Addressing the UEFA Respect Diversity Conference in Rome, UEFA President Michel Platini spoke of the responsibility of the football community to promote diversity and eradicate discrimination. In his keynote speech to delegates at the UEFA Respect Diversity Conference in Rome, UEFA President Michel Platini emphasised the role that football has to play in setting an educational example for society in terms of diversity and balancing education with punishments for those who transgress.

EGLSF2014-09-12T09:51:29+02:00Friday, September 12th, 2014 @ 9:51|Categories: External|0 Comments

[UEFA] Respect Diversity conference under way in Rome – Day 1

Over 200 delegates congregated in Rome for the start of the UEFAa Respect & Diversity conference, a two-day event on the future direction of eliminating discrimination from the game.

EGLSF2014-09-11T12:05:47+02:00Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 9:12|Categories: External|Tags: diversity, UEFA|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

[Washington Blade] Equality is a team sport

The past 18 months have truly been groundbreaking in the LGBT sports landscape. The likes of Jason Collins, Michael Sam, Derick Gordon, as well as Olympians Sally J Shipard, Callan Chythlook-Sifsof, Caitlin Cahow and Belle Brockhoff have all come out so loudly and so proudly! - See more at: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2014/08/21/equality-team-sport/#sthash.05v9wUPY.dpuf

EGLSF2014-08-27T01:20:22+02:00Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 @ 1:20|Categories: External|Tags: coming out, equality, lgbt|0 Comments

[SOGInews] Discrimination gets a red card – An interview with Les Dégommeuses

Sport is a universal language that can bring people together. This is why “Les Dégommeuses” football team is harnessing sport to fight all forms of discrimination, promote inclusion, celebrate diversity, entertain and at the same time empowering LBT persons in France. Read to see what the team representative, Veronica Noseda, has to share

EGLSF2020-04-19T16:58:22+02:00Tuesday, August 26th, 2014 @ 17:26|Categories: External|Tags: advocacy, discrimination, homophobia, women football|0 Comments