NEWSLETTER 17 MARCH:

FORCED PROSTITUTION IN FOCUS AT WORLD CUP

1) Football World Cup enrolled in fight against forced prostitution

2) MEP urges tv stations to help combat football racism

3) Referee convicted of match fixing may not go to jail

4) IOC member suspended after criminal conviction

5) IOC agrees to discuss membership for Greenland and Faroe Islands

6) FIFA lifts all restrictions on World Cup photos

7) Seminar in Copenhagen: Sport in the new Europe

1) Football World Cup enrolled in fight against forced prostitution

German authorities should set up telephone hotlines, safe houses and legal aid to help the many women expected to be forced into working as prostitutes during the upcoming World Cup in football, says members of the European Parliament.

The European politicians are lending their support to the growing movement to eradicate forced prostitution around major sport events. Last week the German Women’s Council launched the campaign “Final Whistle – Stop Forced Prostitution” with support from the German Football Federation.

2) MEP urges tv stations to help combat football racism

Television stations should turn off sounds or colour when a racist incident occurs on the stadium during a football match, suggest Claude Moraes, member of the European Parliament.

3) Referee convicted of match fixing may not go to jail

Last year, German football referee Robert Hoyzer was sentenced to 29 months in jail for match fixing. But the court has made a mistake and now Hoyzer may avoid going to prison altogether.

4) IOC member suspended after criminal conviction

One month after his conviction of fraud, the IOC Executive Committee has finally decided to provisionally deprive Yong-sung Park from South Korea of all rights as an IOC member.

5) IOC agrees to discuss membership for Greenland and Faroe Islands

It is very difficult for autonomous regions to become independent members of the IOC but now IOC has agreed to hear arguments directly from the two Danish autonomous regions: Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

6) FIFA lifts all restrictions on World Cup photos

FIFA has agreed to lift all planned restrictions on publication of photographs from the upcoming World Cup. Now newspapers can publish all the photos they want when they want to do it.

7) Seminar in Copenhagen: Sport in the New Europe

Monday 3 April, the Institute of Exercise and Sport Sciences at Copenhagen University is hosting a day long debate on sport in the new Europe. There will be presentations by academics from Germany and Britain on multiculturalism and islam in sport; women and sport; and sport in the area between business and volunteering.

Read the full programme on the University’s website

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