All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sport, Modern Slavery, & Human Rights
The APPG brings together Parliamentarians from all political parties with an interest in the issue of modern slavery and sport. The group’s mission is to find solutions to pressing human rights problems affecting large scale sporting events around the world, with a focus on three specific areas; the human rights impacts of the cycle of mega-sporting events, the impacts of the UK Modern Slavery Act on professional sport companies and discrimination in sport in all its forms.
The APPG is chaired by Alex Norris MP and Baroness Young of Hornsey, with the Secretariat provided by the UN Global Compact Network UK and the Centre for Sport and Human Rights.
The APPG holds regular meetings and over the next 24 months, the APPG plans to take evidence (written and oral) from high level, high profile sports administrators, athletes, policy makers, sports governing bodies, journalists, civil society/NGOs, and anyone else that can make a constructive contribution to the reports that will be produced.
For more information, please visit the APPG website here or contact our Business and Human Rights Project Manager, Marcella Mizzi.
Please note that due to COVID-19 restrictions, all formal APPG meetings are suspended until further notice.
23 Ministers for Sport recently released a statement on transparency, democracy and human rights in the work of international sport federations 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇧🇪🇧🇬🇨🇿🇩🇰🇪🇸🇪🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇬🇷🇮🇪🇮🇹🇱🇹🇳🇱🇱🇺🇵🇹🇷🇴🇸🇰🇸🇮🇸🇪🇳🇴🇮🇸
🔗 Read it here: https://buff.ly/3gBV9D7
The Centre & @APPG_SportandHR submitted a call for evidence, recommendations in the publication include:
➡️ Ensure equal access to sporting opportunities
➡️ Engage those currently underrepresented in sport and recreation
➡️Calls for an independent safeguarding body
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🗣 The Lords Select Committee on a National Plan for Sport and Recreation has issued its recommendations.
The Centre is pleased to have contributed with @APPG_SportandHR and to see its recommendations referenced.
📖 Read the full report below👇
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Many athletes migrate without adequate information on their human rights, labor laws, or sport regulation at the destination country leaving them vulnerable of exploitation and human trafficking.
#internationalmigrantsday #athletelife #athleteculture
Peng Shuai: International Tennis Federation does not want to ‘punish 1.4bn people’ with a China boycott https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/dec/06/peng-shuai-international-tennis-federation-does-not-want-to-punish-14bn-people-with-a-china-boycott
The problem of #sports trafficking: setting an agenda for future investigation & action. Our new report by @AkilahJardine, @lscapalbo & @NottsPolitics student Taylor Turner is now out. Foreword by @LolaHornsey & afterword by @Mission_89. Read it here: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/beacons-of-excellence/rights-lab/resources/reports-and-briefings/2021/august/the-problem-of-sports-trafficking.pdf
Migrant workers' abuse in Qatar's World Cup luxury hotels https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/briefings/checked-out-migrant-worker-abuse-in-qatars-world-cup-luxury-hotels/
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board recently approved recommendations by the IOC Athletes’ Commission concerning its review of Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter on athlete expression.
Read the Centre statement on this here 👇
#Sport #HumanRights #Olympics
Athletes have real concerns about Beijing 2022, says human rights group head http://reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/athletes-have-real-concerns-about-beijing-2022-says-human-rights-group-head-2021-04-15/
#HumanRights #Sport #beijingolympics2022
Why are football teams protesting against Qatar 2022 World Cup? | Football News | Al Jazeera https://aje.io/apavp via @AJEnglish
Does women's football have a diversity problem? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/56382039 via @bbcsport
#Diversity #Sport #football
We are happy to announce that our evidence to the House of Lords Select committee on the National Plan for Sport and Recreation has been published. You can find it here👉https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/21993/html/
#Sport #ModernSlavery #HumanRights #Diversity #Safeguarding
Revealed: 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar as it gears up for World Cup https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-worker-deaths-qatar-fifa-world-cup-2022?CMP=share_btn_tw
🚨 New Podcast Special Series 🔊
This 6-part special series follows on from the Sports-Related Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children paper published in 2020. Featuring a host of experts from around the world this series kicks off with an intro & episode 1 out today 👇
The Covid-19 pandemic has helped highlight the nature and scale of forced labour in supply chains. The time to act is long overdue.
http://news.trust.org/item/202102020702105-bjixs/
'You see a lot of good football academies for boys – where are the ones for girls?' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/womens-sport/2021/02/01/see-lot-good-football-academies-boys-ones-girls/