５月号では、５月に開催された第７回IWG
ボツワナ国際会議についての報告記事(p.
3-5)が記載されています。また、スポーツ
における虐待についてStart to Talkという集いについての紹介(p.5)や、ジェンダーの平等に向けた3年計画の国際プロジェクトに
イギリスの大学が貢献していること（p.8）
も報告されました。

IAPESGW International Update, May 2018: News and resources fromaround the world
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IAPESGW Regional event - International Congress Cubamotricidad
22 - 26 October 2018, Havana Convention Center, Cuba
The World Organization of Stimulation, Education and Child Development (OMEEDI), theInternational Association of Physical Education and Sports for Girls and Women (IAPESGW),
the International Association of Sports for All (TAFISA) with the National Institute of Sports ,Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) of the Republic of Cuba, with the auspice ofprestigious institutions and international organizations are convening the International
Congress Cubamotricidad 2018, which will take place from October 22nd to 26th at theHavana Convention Center, Cuba.
View a flyer for the event in English
View a flyer for the event in Spanish

1May Editorial
Much has been happening on the international stage.
The IWG Conference in Botswana was held this month and was well supported byinternational delegates, including our President Rosa Lopez D’Amico. You can read her report
and the Conference’s Legacy document which has strategies for Botswana, Africa as acontinent and international development.
In Europe, the Council of Europe has called for action on child sex abuse in sport and the
WHO (Europe) has drafted a document on the economic cost of physical inactivity. What auseful document this will be.
Loughborough University has partnered with 17 groups to develop an international project ($3million budget) on gender equality. A very worthwhile project to follow.
You need to fit into your busy schedule a quiet 50 minutes to listed to the podcast featuring
our member and previous secretary/treasurer Karin Lofstrom, on her 30 years’ experience as
an advocate for girls and women in sport, and where Canada is currently positioned and the
direction of new government resources to level the playing field.
Also from Canada is an article on SheIs, a social media initiative of eight women’s sport
leagues, for them to collaborate to grow interest, fans and resources across their sports. A
similar initiative has just been announced in the UK where Sky Sports and the UK’s Women’sSport Trust are combining to encourage sports fans to “show up” and support women’s sport
by watching, attending or playing. With the growth of women’s sport you can see these
initiatives being followed in other places as sponsors and media want to see “bums on seats”
to demonstrate the worthiness of their investments.
Also covered in this edition are some participation initiatives from golf, table tennis andfootball; these sports are developing new programs to grow girls and women’s participation.
And a brilliant imitative has come from Scotland’s Celtic Football Club which has announced a“period poverty” project to support those unable to afford menstruation products. This could bea world first!
The Women’s Sport Network has recently launched MoJo Manuals to support teenage girls
involved in competitive sport. They cover movement skills and physical literacy, anxiety,nutrition, drop-out, hydration, periods, body image, etc and look like a comprehensive new
resource for coaches, parents and teachers.
As usual we have included a number of reports from Inside the Games and news from
Australia, Iran, Spain, the UK and USA.
It is with much sadness that we recognize the passing of Celia Brackenridge OBE, 22 August
1950 – 23 May 2018. She was a leading international sportswomen (lacrosse player andcoach), campaigner and academic. Her OBE was for services to child protection and equality
in sport. Celia recently helped set up the charity Safe Sport International with UNICEF, theIOC and the IPC to promote athletes’ protection and welfare.
From the 1990’s she pioneered research into sexual and physical abuse and harassment insport, which was initially met with hostility from UK sport governing bodies. However, she
persisted with her research, writings and presentations at conferences and will always beremembered for her dedication to gender equality and pioneering of harassment and abuse in
sport. Vale Celia Brackenridge.
Janice Crosswhite OAM
Communications Director

2International
The outcomes from this key conference.....
7th IWG World Conference comes to an end - Legacy revealed
20 May, 2018
The 7th IWG World Conference on Women and Sport today closed with the presentation of
the legacy plan for Gaborone 2014-2018. The conference also handed the baton over to the
new hosts of the organisations secretariat, co-chairpersonship as well as host of the 8th World
Conference on Women and Sport.
The legacy presented was in 3 phases including a Local legacy that aims to benefit theoutgoing hosts immediate sport community, the Africa legacy that will ensure a functional andunited Africa Women in Sport and finally a World legacy that will guide all parts of the world.
The Legacy Packaged:
1. LOCAL
Policyxxx

Gender Mainstreaming into sport in partnership with Commonwealth Secretariat
Global Active City Development (GACD)-partnership led by TAFISA and Evaleo; inpartnership with Gaborone City Council, BNSC, BNOC
Signing of Brighton Plus Helsinki Declaration-from 419 to 589

Trainingxx

Training of sport women-Tsoseletso Magang trained in WSLA as a trainer, 5 other youth
taken to youth camp in USA, 4 IWG staff trained in WSLA
Training of Volunteers- 70 Certified by TAFISA

Programmesxxx

Mentorship and Empowerment Programme for Young Women in Sport (MEMPROW)
Monthly open discussions with Tsoseletso Magang
HeForShe-moved numbers from 84 to around 5000

2.AFRICA LEGACY
Insights on our work in Africa: Africa Woman Sport Conference in 2016
3. IWG WORLD LEGACY
IWG BOTSWANA BIG 5 (Strategic Actions)Media: Cooperate with media, and utilise social media, to both increase coverage of womn's
sports and to potray women without limiting- stereotypes
Accountability: Increase transparency regarding resource allocation for women's and men's
sports in order to insure accountability and women's equality
Representation: Insist on equitable sport leadership roles for women at all levels in governing
bodies, as coaches, in administrative and decision-making positions. Persistently pursue
women's sports participation and representational targets.
Research to Practice: Build evidence-based policies and practices that drive gender equality,
safety, violence-free environments, and integrity in sport, including an emphasis on women's
right to control their own bodies.

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Communication: Build onto the IWG digital platform to serve as a hub for women's sports
news, research, best practices and organizational progress and to strategically pursue
additional signatories.
Source of information
More information on the IWG World Conference....
Our president and IWG Board member , Rosa López de D’Amico, attend the conference
and has produce a report on the event - with some photographs:
IWG Congress
May 17 – 20, 2018, Gaborone - Botswana
The 7th IWG World Conference on Women & Sport took place in Gaborone – Botswana May
17 – 20, at the Gaborone International Convention Center. The motto of the conference was‘Determine the future. Be part of the change”. It was a great event in which the Local
Organizing Committee after four years of hard work finally achieved their goal to host awonderful congress. The local authorities, particular the national government, together withvarious sponsors joined forces to celebrate and host this impressive gathering of leaders andpractitioners who celebrated women and sport and provided many different activities to theparticipants.
The co-chairs Ruth Maphorisa and Carole Oglesby, together with an exceptional team ofvolunteers and, produced a program that balanced interesting panels, keynote speakers, oral
and poster presentations, cultural activities and the presence of many important sport officials
and leaders from various places of the world. There was a total of 1469 registeredparticipants from 74 countries: this number included 177 media representatives, 84 volunteers
and 40 workforces; it is estimated that in total there were 1227 present during the four days.
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View the full report from Rosa

IWG Board Members

4View the presentation - 10 slides----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Council of Europe (April 2018)
Start To Talk: call to action launched - Child sexual abuse in sport: Council of Europe
calls for action to break the silence
The Council of Europe today made a call on public authorities and the sports movement totake determined action to prevent sexual abuse of children. Under the theme “Start to talk”, it
launched in Madrid an international awareness-raising initiative urging governments, sports
clubs, associations and federations, as well as athletes, coaches and parents to take concretemeasures to prevent and respond to abuse.
This call for action aims to extend to sports the reach of the Lanzarote Convention, a treaty
focused on preventing and combating sexual exploitation and abuse of children.
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View the full news item
Also, View the 'Start to Talk' website

Sport Industry Group, UK (27 April 2018)
US Gymnast’s bravery recognised with new global Integrity Award
The Integrity and Impact Award founded by Dow Jones Sports Intelligence was presented at
the BT Sport Industry Awards 2018 to former gymnast Rachael Denhollander, the first woman
to publically accuse former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar of sexual abuse.
After her first courageous step to speak out, Denhollander was also significantly the last of
more than 150 women and girls to confront Nasser in the US courtroom in harrowing andemotional scenes during his sentencing hearing for criminal sexual conduct.
On 24th January, Nassar was sentenced to between 40 and 175 years in prison.
Denhollander’s bravery showed the path for the many others who also showed immense
bravery in coming forward and speaking out against the abuse they had suffered.
The Integrity and Impact Award founded by Dow Jones Sports Intelligence was created thisyear to reward exemplary levels of ethics, integrity, transparency and trust in sport.
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View the full news item5World Health Organization - Europe (8 May 2018)
Tackling physical inactivity by demonstrating its costs to the economy
In an effort to tackle physical inactivity, WHO, the European Union (EU) and the Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have jointly committed to approaching
sports and physical activity not only as a public health issue, but also by addressing the
economic impact of physical inactivity. In support of this approach, the Directorate General for
Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC) of the European Commission organized asport cluster meeting on 11 April 2018 to provide a platform for discussing the economic
benefits of sport, ways to measure it, and ways to incorporate available data into sports policy.
Physical inactivity has been rated as high as the 4th leading risk factor for global mortality,
causing an estimated 3.2 million deaths globally and 1 million deaths (about 10% of the total)
per year in the WHO European Region. While the impact on health of physical inactivity is well
documented, little research has been done on the economic aspect and the cost-effectivenessof sports programmes.
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View the full news item

Inside the games reports (10 May 2018)
European Squash Federation elect first female majority board
The European Squash Federation (ESF) have elected their first female majority board at theorganisation's Annual General Meeting in Wrocław.
Three vice-presidential candidates were elected at the meeting in the Polish city, to join
President Zena Wooldridge and vice-president Jackie Robinson, both of England, on theboard.
Ireland's Rosie Barry, Hugo Hannes of Belgium and Sweden's Thomas Troedsson were thetrio to gain a place.
They will succeed the outgoing Marcel Borst of The Netherlands and the Czech Republic's
Pavel Sladecek.
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View the full news item

Inside the games reports (16 May 2018)
Nsekera calls for more work towards gender equality before IWG World Conference inSport
Burundi's Lydia Nsekera has called for an increase in the number of female representatives in
sport governance to be treated as a priority on the eve of the International Working Group(IWG) World Conference in Sport in Gaborone.
The four-day event in Botswana's capital is commemorating 24 years since the first World
Conference on Women in Sport in Brighton in 1994.
Nsekera, chair of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Women in Sport Commission,
said that they have "come a long way and should be exceedingly proud of all of these women
who have helped to vault us forward".
It comes before female competitors are due to form 50 per cent of those participating at theSummer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires in October.
"But the push for gender equality in the Olympic Movement is not over yet, as sport should not
be restricted to elite athletes," Nsekera added.

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"There are still, everywhere in the world, too many highly accomplished women who arerefused access to sport, or socially stigmatised when they decide to excel in a sport.
"Similarly, women face discrimination at all levels, and continue to endure violence andabuse.
"Gender inequality persists among decision-making bodies, technical occupations, the media,
and in the awarding of sponsorships and prizes."...................................................................................................................................................
View the full news item

conversations from the world of women's sports (22 May 2018)
Podcast - Talking Point: How Equity has Evolved for Girls & Women
Lisa Ingarfield and Karin Lofstrom discuss the evolution of gender parity for girls and women
and what is needed for the future to achieve equality
Talking Point is hosted by Dr. Lisa Ingarfield
Access the Podcast

Inside the games reports (24 May 2018)
Helleland confirms intention to stand for WADA President
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) vice-president Linda Helleland has confirmed her intention
to stand to succeed Sir Craig Reedie as President when the Scot steps down next year.
The Norwegian Minister of Children and Equality told BBC Sport she would run for the top job
as there was a "need for change" within WADA.
It had been widely expected that Helleland, elected WADA vice-president in November 2016,
would stand to replace Sir Craig, whose term comes to an end in November 2019.
Her candidacy will almost certainly be opposed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC),
who are thought to be positioning a challenger to the Norwegian.
The WADA Presidency rotates between Government representatives and those from thesports movement.
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View the full news item

The world of women's sport, and sport in general, has lost another great stalwart and expert
on child protection in sport.....
The Guardian (23 May 2018)
Celia Brackenridge obituary - Campaigner against abuse and harassment in sport
Celia Brackenridge, who has died aged 67 from leukaemia, was an international
sportswoman, a campaigner for women’s causes and an authority on child protection in sport.
She carried out pioneering work on the sexual abuse and harassment of young athletes andfootballers by their coaches in the 1980s and 90s. Her research led her further to examine thesexual, physical and emotional abuse of all athletes, her findings being met with total denial by
the then sports establishment.
In 2001 she began working with the Football Association to assess the state of child protection
at clubs, and to monitor a new FA strategy to protect junior players, but what was intended to
be a £1m, five-year project was curtailed because of internal disputes in the Football7

Association and a disagreement between Adam Crozier (then FA chief executive) and thePremier League clubs, which objected to the project. Her work will live on because it is being
incorporated into the current inquiry into abuse in football, led by Clive Sheldon QC.
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Celia Brackenridge, sportswoman, campaigner and academic, born 22 August 1950; died 23
May 2018

General interest.....
Loughborough University, UK (23 May 2018)
University is partner in new international project on gender equality
Loughborough University is to contribute to a new international project that aims to advanceknowledge and sharing on gender equality.
ACT (Communities of Practice for Accelerating Gender Equality and Institutional Change in
Research and Innovation across Europe) is a Coordination and Support Action project fundedby the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
The project, which has a total budget of €3m, looks to advance gender equality at researchperforming organizations and research-funding organizations.
It aims to do this by strengthening the existing infrastructure for knowledge sharing and mutual
learning to increase gender expertise and engagement for institutional change.
ACT is being coordinated by Universitat Oberta de Catalunya researcher Jörg Müller andinvolves 17 partners from 10 European countries as well as Argentina.
The interdisciplinary Loughborough University team is led by Dr Sarah Barnard from the
School of Business and Economics in collaboration with Professor Tarek Hassan andProfessor Andrew Dainty from the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering.
This work builds on other European research work the Loughborough team has participated insuch as GenderTime and HELENA.
The project launched in Barcelona, Spain, last week (17-18 May) and it is to run for three
years (until April 2021).
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View the full news item

Journal of Physical Activity and Health: The Official Journal of the International
Society for Physical Activity and Health. Volume 15, Issue 6, June 2018
Editor - the abstracts from the articles in this current edition to be placed on their website are
now available.
View the abstracts

Specific countries
AUSTRALIA
Australian Leisure Management reports (9 May 2018)Federal budget backs sport and activity, disappoints arts and tourism
In addition to widely reported personal tax cuts, Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison’s 2018/19
budget is to provide additional funds to support grassroots sport and help ensure Australians
stay active.

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A centrepiece of the Federal budget, $154.3 million has been being pledged over five years to
get Australians, particularly children, more physically active.
A total of $41.7 million of the funding will be directly for the Sporting Schools Program to
expand to a total of 5,200 primary schools and 500 secondary schools to provide free sport
based activities for students.
Community sporting facilities will get a boost through 500 infrastructure development grants of
up to $500,000 each, and nearly $30 million will be given to various National Sporting
Organisations over four years to increase participation in sport.
The Australian Sports Commission will get $20 million over four years to fund sportingorganisations and athletes; while nearly $12 million will go to the Local Sporting Champions
program to help young Australians compete at state, national and international events.
More than $10 million will be spent on improving anti-doping and drug testing activities and $6
million has been set aside over four years to develop the Safe Sports Australia program and anational sports injury database.
A further $3.4 million over four years will be spent on the AusPlay national sport and physicalactivity participation survey to understand the nation's activity habits.
However, the budget contained little detail on specific spending women's sport,
although some programs were announced for women's health and well-being.
The budget also confirmed the previously announced sum of $4 million to Football Federation
Australia to assist in preparing a bid for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Further detail on Federal support for grassroots sport will be announced in a new NationalSports Plan scheduled to be released later this year.
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View the full news item

The Guardian (16 May 2018)
Women Onside: the group pushing for gender equity in Australian football leadership
FFA must elect a new congress, but no women have been invited onto that working group
Heather Reid was the CEO of the ACT football federation (known as Capital Football) for 12
years. She was the first woman to lead an Australian state football association, and, at thetime, she represented 11% of women’s involvement in senior football leadership positions.
When she left the job and was replaced by a man, that figure dropped to zero.
“That’s why I don’t like people talking about percentages of gendered representation,” she tells
Guardian Australia. “I like to know the real numbers because they tell the true story. So I was
one of nine state representatives when I was CEO, and now there’s zero out of nine women[in leadership positions] at the federation level [in Australian football].”
Reid has since stepped back from football, but remains invested in the question of gender
equity in her chosen sport. She is concerned that no women have been appointed to afederation or national league club-level CEO position since her departure. She is also worried
that, with the directive from Fifa for FFA to appoint a new Australian congress to resolve
longstanding management issues in the game, no women have been appointed onto thereview working group that will decide the final make-up of the congress.
The current composition of the working group includes four federation representatives, amember of the FFA board, a single players’ representative, and two representatives of theAustralian Professional Football Clubs Association, which represents the interests of ALeague clubs. Within the structure of the working group, A-League representatives have been9presumed to stand in for W-League clubs, while an independent chair remains to be elected.
All nominated representatives are men.
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View the full news item

Inside the games reports (24 May 2018)
Gymnastics Australia launch education plan to combat sexual abuse
A plan which will educate more than 200,000 young athletes on identifying and preventing
child sex abuse has been launched by Gymnastics Australia.
The joint initiative, involving Gymnastics Australia and child safety advocacy body
Bravehearts, comes amid the fallout to the sexual abuse scandal at USA Gymnastics.
Gymnastics Australia claim it will ensure 220,000 Australian children are "safer from potential
harm".
The scheme, the first of its kind in Australia, will include training and materials for more than
600 affiliated gymnastics clubs and their staff to help identify the possible signs of sexual
abuse, including risk factors, grooming, and other warnings.
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View the full news item

Vic Sport (May 2018)2018 LEAP Graduation - Wrap
If you work in sport, you’re probably used to hearing acronyms all the time. Fair to say,
Aussies shorten almost every word in our vernacular. There is however, an acronym thatdeserves to stand alone and be recognised for each individual word: LEAD, ENGAGE,ACHIEVE, PROMOTE aka ‘LEAP’.
LEAP is a professional development course for female sport administrators. On Wednesday
10 May 2018 at the Citipower Function Centre at the inconic Junction Oval, Vicsport and theState Government of Victoria partnered together to create a program aimed at inspiring female
sport administrators to enhance their leadership capabilities to reach their full potential.
13 women braved the stage, embraced their fears of public speaking and presented in front ofan esteemed audience of government officials and their employers, and pitched an
idea/concept on how they would implement change in their sporting organisation.
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View the full news item

CANADA
Beyond Sport reports (8 May 2018)
Women’s sports leagues band together with 'SheIS' initiative
Eight leagues, including the WNBA, U.S. Tennis Association, Women’s Pro Fastpitch League
and Canadian Women’s Hockey, will try to help each other increase resources, viewershipand attendance.
“Each commissioner has agreed to come to one and another’s events,” WNBA President Lisa
Borders said. “Women have to support women before you ask other people to support you. I’ll
buy a ticket to a hockey game in Canada or a fast-pitch softball game.”
All the league commissioners signed a pledge and filmed a public service
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“It’s a social media campaign for now but will grow,” Borders added. “This is only tier one.”
The initiative was the brainchild of Brenda Andress, commissioner of the Canadian Women’s
Hockey League, who came up with the idea last November.
“This collective sports voice has never been heard. I wanted to create some type of program
or challenge to bring women together that was born out of positivity,” Andress said. “So I
thought of SheIS. When I thought of myself, she is a grandmother with young kids. She is acommissioner. She is a hockey player. She is anything she wants to be. That’s where SheIS
came from.”...................................................................................................................................................
The other leagues that already joined are Women’s Pro Lacrosse, Canada Basketball, Rugby
Canada and the National Women’s Hockey League. Andress expects other sports like soccer,
gymnastics, swimming, cycling and running to join soon, too. Through the initiative, theleagues also aim to help increase young girls’ participation in sports.
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View the full news item
Editor - find out more about SheIS on their website - www.sheissport.com
Also, from their launch we want to make you aware of the following:
We have the Digital Content Package which entails our PSA Videos, Photos from our April
18 event, Overview Powerpoint of the initiative, and graphics for everyone to share.
Access the Digital Content at:https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9atbll026z6byad/AABsIylj_wTakTMYn4fI9Sxga?dl=0
The Media Kit contains the Press Release we used for our launch date on May 1.
Access the Media Kit at:https://www.dropbox.com/sh/br3qowlmwmsw71d/AACKaH6Zp4SmkC_LN9Xm7IeWa?dl=0

IRAN
Inside the games reports (24 May 2018)
Iran make history by selecting two female flagbearers for Asian Para Games
Iran has chosen two female athletes as its flagbearers for this year's Asian Para Games in
Jakarta.
Sareh Javanmardi has been selected for the Opening Ceremony in the Indonesian capitalwhile Samira Eram will do the honours at the Closing Ceremony.
The Iranian National Paralympic Committee has never selected two women as its flagbearers
before.
Javanmardi is a history maker after becoming Iran's first female gold medallist at a Paralympic
Games at Rio 2016.
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Eram, another shooter, also experienced success in Cheongju in the women's P2 10m air
pistol team event, alongside Javanmardi and Khadijeh Rostami.
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Editor - thanks once again to our national rep Robabeh Rostami for supplying an overview ofactivity in Iran for May, and all the excellent photographs, in a very informative news
compilation - view the May edition here
An example:
With a winning goal against Japan, Iranian deserving girls won the Asian Futsal
ChampionshipIranian futsal girls defeated Japan, Asian nations Cup. At the end of the competition, three top
awards came to Iran. Fereshteh Karimi became the most valuable player in Asia, Sara
Shirbygi scored the top scorer with 9 goals, and Iranian team captain Naseem Gholami wasawarded the fair play that came to Iran.

SPAIN
Received on 4 May 2018 in Spanish....
Estimadas amigas, estimados amigos:
Desde el instituto Universitario de Estudios de la Mujer de la UAM, vamos a realizar por
segundo año consecutivo un Curso de Verano, que tendrá lugar los días 9, 10 y 11 de julio enla sede de la UAM de La Corrala (metro La Latina). El curso del año pasado lo dedicamos a
examinar la Ley orgánica de Igualdad, este año trataremos un tema
igualmente necesario, urgente y relevante: "Violencias de Género,
nuevos y viejos escenarios".
Durante los tres días del curso tendremos 20 ponentes expertos/as en la materia, queabordarán el tema desde distintos ámbitos: la Historia, el ámbito Jurídico, las migraciones, laSalud o la Educación.

Ph.D Carmen Rodríguez Fernández
Full Time Professor
Department of Physical Education and Sports.
Track & Field National Coach-Royal Spanish Athletics Federation
University of Seville
SPAIN
Phone: +34 955420464

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UK
Laureus Sport for Good Foundation (24 April 2018)
Nolli Waterman announced as Laureus Ambassador
England women’s rugby star Nolli Waterman, who has played in four Rugby World Cups andthe Olympic Games, has become Laureus’ first women’s rugby Ambassador. Nolli got straight
to work in her new role by visiting the Laureus-supported School of Hard Knocks girls rugby
programme in South East London.
Nolli spent time engaging and mentoring the young girls during their gym activity, before
heading out to the rugby pitch and encouraging them to fulfil their potential both in sport and inlife. The young girls at School of Hard Knocks use the sport of rugby to re-engage with theirschool work, build confidence and increase self-esteem.
Winning her first England cap at the age of 18 in 2003, Nolli has since gone on to feature infour rugby world cups, won 82 caps and scored 47 tries for her country. Her greatest successwith England was becoming World Champion in 2014. Nolli also represented Team GB In therugby sevens competition at the 2016 Olympic Games.
Working with over 100 programmes worldwide, Laureus Sport for Good uses the power ofsport to end violence, discrimination and disadvantage, proving that sport can change theworld. One of Sport for Good’s six key focus areas is to address women and girls in sport,
encouraging equality, building confidence and promoting empowerment.
School of Hard Knocks uses the sport of rugby to change lives across the UK. In London, withthe support of Laureus Sport for Good, School of Hard Knocks delivers a long-term schools
intervention programme which helps the most at-risk students to complete mainstream
education. Students identified by their school are supported in recognising and overcoming
challenges that lead to truancy or disruptive behaviour through weekly mentoring and rugby
sessions.
Source of information

England Golf (2 May 2018)
Clubs back drive to get more women beginners playing golf
Over 50 golf clubs in eight counties are backing England Golf’s drive to get more women
beginners playing - helped by laughter, fizz and a novel twist to scoring.
Clubs in Devon, Hampshire, Northumberland, Suffolk and Worcestershire are joining theconfidence-building campaign this season. They’ll be offering a series of fun playing days for
new golfers, starting in this month.
They are building on the successes of clubs in Hertfordshire, Cheshire and Durham, whichpiloted the scheme and are continuing to run golf days to welcome newcomers to the sport.
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Women on Par is an initiative from England Golf, which is committed to growing the womenand girls’ game. Currently only 15 per cent of club members are women and just one per centare girls.
Visit: getintogolf.org to find out about and book these sessions and discover otheropportunities for beginners and improvers.
View the full news item

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Women's Sports Network, UK (14 May 2018)
The Women's Sports Network is launching a series of MoJoManuals
Aimed at supporting teenage girls as they engage in competitive sport.
MoJoManuals will be launched at next month's Women in Sport & Exercise Conference organised by WiSEAN (The Women in Sport & Exercise Academic Network) - 13 -14 June
2018, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent campus - view more details of the conference
The MoJoManuals
A series of ‘kit bag’ manuals designed to help teenage girls (& teachers, coaches, parents) as they engage in competitive sport - to develop greater body confidence in parallel with sportrelated skills. MoJoManuals are predicated on specific, sport-related 'Physical Literacy' &effective movement skills but also cover a wide range of issues which impact how girls
engage/drop out of sport including; Diet & Hydration, Periods, Anxiety, Body Image, Breast
Health, Core Stability, Resistance Training . . & Fear of Failure.
More information HERE

Sport England (15 May 2018)
Chief executive to leave Sport England
Jennie Price is to leave Sport England after more than a decade as chief executive.
After 11 years at the helm, Jennie Price will leave her role as Chief Executive of SportEngland at the end of October.
Jennie has led us through a remarkable transformation including the development of our new
strategy, Towards an Active Nation, which is now firmly established.
She personally led the team responsible for the multi-award winning This Girl Can campaign
to help women and girls get active.
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Women in Football (16 May 2018)#WhatIf we changed the landscape of football forever?
Women in Football has launched #WhatIf - a campaign that will change the landscape forwomen working in the football industry forever!
#WhatIf is an innovative campaign, driven largely through social channels, that will empowerbusinesses, celebrities and members of the public to identify one way that they could takeaction to contribute to an improvement for women and girls within the football industry,
however large or small.
The campaign was borne out of a pro bono competition Synergy launched to support
grassroots women’s sports charities.
Women in Football has been working with both Synergy and Betfair, headline sponsors of theofficial launch, to encourage corporates and individuals to make a pledge, and are looking toencourage others on Wednesday, and moving forward, to make a pledge of support
through their work to help change the landscape forever.
The official #WhatIf launch at Twitter's London HQ, was proudly sponsored by Betfair, andkicked off with a welcome by Jacqui Oatley MBE.
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Table Tennis England (17 May 2018)
Helping clubs to increase female participation
Clubs and Leagues still have just over a week to apply to be part of Table Tennis England’s
Be TT programme.
The support programme for PremierClubs and Leagues is designed to build better
experiences across our sport and one of the three areas of focus, based on insight into
playing habits around the country, is developing female participation.
Table Tennis England has published a Best Practice Guide on Increasing Female
Participation to guide Clubs and Leagues planning to focus on that area.
The guide helps clubs to understand barriers which may prevent women and girls from playing
and how to remove them, guidance on how to engage women from different age brackets andcreate sessions tailored for women, plus case studies from clubs and leagues which havesuccessfully introduced more female players to the sport.
Click here to view the Good Practice Guide on Increasing Female Participation.
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Liverpool John Moores University reports (21 May 2018)
Celtic FC leads way in tackling period poverty, now other clubs need to follow
Scotland’s top football club, Celtic FC, will become the first in the UK to provide free menstrual
products in its stadium this autumn. The move raises awareness of the global issue of period
poverty and should prompt other clubs to follow Celtic’s lead.
Period poverty – being unable to afford menstrual products – is a worldwide problem and has
become a major focus of campaigns in numerous countries. It affects one in ten women aged
14 to 21 in Britain and nearly one in five in Scotland.
Many women and girls are prevented from participating in sport both because of period
poverty and lack of access to sanitary products – plus the shame and stigma associated withmenstruation. A recent study found 48% of girls aged 14-21 feel embarrassed by their periods,
while 71% have felt embarrassed buying products. For this reason campaigns like#freeperiod, which pushes for free menstrual products in schools, focus on stigma as well as
access.
Celtic got involved after three supporters started a petition requesting that the Glasgow clubprovide menstrual products in its toilets, which went on to attract 2,700 signatures. It is fittingthat Scotland should be leading the way in this regard, since the movement to end period
poverty has been particularly active in this country. To quote the Labour MSP Monica Lennon,
who has been one of the lead campaigners:“Menstruation should never be a barrier for women participating in football or supporting theirteam.”......................................................................................................................................................
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Sport Industry Group reports (22 May 2018)
Sky & Women's Sport Trust launch #ShowUp
Sky Sports and the Women's Sport Trust have partnered to encourage sport fans to 'show up'
and support women's sport by watching, attending or playing.
Launched this week, the #ShowUp campaign will include multi-platform support from across
Sky and WST channels, including on-air, social media and PR.

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The campaign has been launched in support of the diverse range of women working in sport,
both on the field and off it, from athletes to behind the scenes.
As part of the campaign, Sky is asking famous faces, fans and the general public to pledge
their support using #ShowUp across social media to document their experiences of women in
sport.
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Also, view the Sky Sport video for the campaign

Women’s Sport Trust (25 May 2018)
Winners announced for the Women’s Sport Trust #BeAGameChanger Awards 2018
The World Cup winning England women’s cricket team, footballer turned professional boxer
Stacey Copeland, England and Wales Cricket Board and England Rugby’s Inner Warrior
campaign are amongst the winners of the Women’s Sport Trust #BeAGameChanger Awards
2018.
Women’s Sport Trust has announced the winners of this year’s Women’s Sport Trust#BeAGameChanger Awards, celebrating the visionaries and game changers driving the futureof women’s sport.
A range of individuals, organisations and initiatives were honoured at the event which took
place last night at Troxy, East London.
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The full list of winners is as follows:
Sporting Role Model – Individual - Stacey CopelandSporting Role Model – Team - England Women’s Cricket Team
Ambassador of Women’s Sport - Lorna Boothe
National Governing Body of the Year - *England and Wales Cricket Board
Brand / Sponsor Partnership of the Year - Investec is ‘Principal Partner of GB andEngland Women’s Hockey’
Inspiring Initiative – National - England Rugby’s Inner Warrior campaign
Inspiring Initiative – Local - Crawley Old Girls (COGs)
Media Initiative of the Year - The Tough Girl Podcast
Imagery of the Year - Standing in the Light
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Women in Sport (23 May 2018)
Statement in response to allegations of RFU sexism
Women in sport recently completed a series of in-depth interviews and a survey of over 1,000
people working in the sport sector. Today’s revelations about the RFU reinforce some of ourfindings, which we will be launching in full in June.
We already know, from audits of women in leadership roles in sport that we have undertaken
for the last 7 years, that women are massively under-represented at both the paid and16

voluntary leadership levels of sport. In 2016, for example, half of the National Governing
Bodies of sport in England and Wales had less than 30% women on the board.
Our research helps us understand what is holding women back – and we found, in line with
the RFU investigation, that it is aspects of tradition and culture that impede women’s
progression.
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Women in Sport - E-Newsletter, May 2018 - available to view
Publications....
Editor - I've just come across this Youth Sport Trust / Women in Sport report from last year on
the WIS website.....
Key Findings from Girls Active Survey. YST Girls Active. Youth Sport Trust and Womenin Sport, November 2018 (8 pages)
We hope our findings will be used to help teachers and other sports providers offer girls amore tailored programme of activities that meet their needs and encourage wider participation.
This will give girls access to numerous physical and mental health benefits as well as thetransferable skills and confidence.
The Girls Active programme developed by the Youth Sport Trust and delivered in partnershipwith This Girl Can and Women in Sport, involves girls in the design and deliveryof PE and physical activity in secondary schools. The programme is already having a huge
impact. So far 50,000 girls have been reached in 200 schools with a further 200 soon to join
programme. Girls are consulted and given leadership positions which give them influence overthe PE curriculum, making it more appealing and relevant to their everyday lives.
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Inside the games reports (21 May 2018)
Former FBI executive appointed senior director of athlete safety by USOC
The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) have announced Wendy Guthrie as
their senior director of athlete safety.
The organisation claim it is their latest measure to "help prevent and respond to abuse, andenhance athlete safety".
It follows a series of scandals which have rocked sport in the US.
USOC revealed that Guthrie will lead the implementation of all athlete safety policies andprocedures, while she will work closely with National Governing Bodies on their athlete safety
efforts.
She will also lead training efforts throughout the US Olympic and Paralympic bodies.
Guthrie spent six years at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) prior to her appointment at
USOC, working as senior executive of human resources.
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