📢 On May 26, the Unifor International and Social Justice Fund Department will host an online panel discussion on labour and human rights and the 2026 #FIFA World Cup. @andreaflorence.bsky.social, #SRA Executive Director, will join the event. 🔗 Register today: www.unifor.org/news/events/...

🌈 Today, on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, the #SRA and @ilgaworld.bsky.social brought together LGBTI+ voices and allies from different parts of the world to reflect on what inclusion means in sport. Join us and raise your voice for inclusion ✊ #IDAHOBIT2026

From May 25–27, Safe Sport International will bring together athletes, researchers, safeguarding professionals, advocates, and people with lived experience from around the world to reflect on current challenges and help shape safer futures in sport. 🔗 www.safesportinternational.com/conferences/...

📣 A International Safeguards for Children in Sport agora disponibiliza sua série de cursos sobre salvaguarda no esporte em português. Todos os cursos são gratuitos e oferecem certificação. 🔗 Saiba mais: www.open.edu/openlearncre...

🗓️ One month until the biggest #WorldCup in history. Today, #FIFA said it will restore anti-discrimination messaging across all 104 matches after backlash over its removal last year. But attacks on immigrants and threats to press freedom and protest still put an inclusive tournament at risk.

📢 We’re excited to welcome Emma Thomas (she/her) as the newest Advisory Council member of the #AthletesNetwork — a former Muay Thai athlete, survivor, sports ethicist & safeguarding consultant. Learn more about the Athletes Network: sportandrightsalliance.org/athletes-net... ✊

📢 The International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS) has challenged the #IOC’s claims that its new eligibility policy is “evidence-based,” calling instead for a sport-specific approach grounded in scientific rigor and transparency. 🔗 Learn more: www.fims.org/news-events/...

The Afghanistan Women’s National Team is now officially recognized and able to pursue World Cup and Olympic qualifications. ✊ 🔗 Learn more about the decision: sportandrightsalliance.org/fifa-new-rul...

🚨 In a new op-ed, senior coordinator at @hrw.org, Robbie Newton, shares from his experience at the Qatar World Cup & argues that without enforceable safeguards, fans at the 2026 tournament remain at risk of discrimination, arbitrary treatment, & unequal access. 🔗 www.playthegame.org/news/promise...

📰 Press freedom is not only a right in itself, but a critical vehicle to advance all other rights. On #PressFreedomDay, we call on #FIFA to put press freedom back in the game and guarantee a World Cup that respects human rights. 👉 Find resources for journalists covering the event: resources.rsf.org

🛠️ For sport to truly unite the world, the people who make sport possible must be treated with dignity, fairness & respect. On this Workers’ Day, we stand together to ensure that workers’ rights are upheld, protected, & recognized as fundamental to a world where sport is an authentic force for good.

Keep the World in the World Cup: Put Human Rights Back in the Game The FIFA Men's World Cup 2026 is around the corner. Let's talk human rights! We are launching a reporter's guide from @hrw.org Berlin - with @sportrightsall.bsky.social @amnesty.org @rsf.org @pressfreedom.bsky.social

A piece of genuinely good news from FIFA. Afghan women will be represented again - by players in exile - in global football. This came from a campaign led by Afghan players, proudly supported by @sportrightsall.bsky.social @amnesty.org @hrw.org and others. inside.fifa.com/organisation...

As part of the @sportrightsall.bsky.social Alliance, Amnesty supported the campaign for recognition of the Afghan Women's National Team, many of which escaped the Taliban and systematic gender discrimination in 2021.

🎉 FIFA has approved a new rule that allows the Afghanistan Women’s National Team to be formally registered and compete in official #FIFA competitions. 🔗 Read the full statement at the link: sportandrightsalliance.org/fifa-new-rul...

📢 Yesterday, @hrw.org and the #SRA convened a press briefing together with journalists, athletes, fans, and human rights experts to examine the growing risks surrounding the 2026 #FIFA Men’s World Cup.

The LGBTI Pathways Survey is now open. It’s collecting global and regional data on funding needs, gaps, and priorities of organisations working with and for LGBTI communities. Survey is anonymous and available in eight languages: lgbtipathways.org/welcome-to-t... | @gpp-updates.bsky.social

📣 Q2 Emergency Fund applications are open! Recognizing the limited access to remedy in sport, the SRA #AthletesNetwork offers resources to help athletes and allies impacted by violence access legal, emotional, physical, or digital assistance. 🔗 Apply: sportandrightsalliance.org/athletes-net...

‼️ In 2024, #MotherwellFC faced a defining moment as external investment threatened its fan ownership model. 📢🗳️ What followed was a David vs Goliath battle, & a powerful example of democratic action from The Well Society. 1/2

📣 Meet the voices behind the #AthletesNetwork. Ahmar Maiga is an Advisory Council member. Drawing on his experience as a former basketball player in Mali, he has been a strong advocate for safeguarding in sport. 🔗 Register for group sessions & join the conversation: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🏀 Brianna Turner, WNBA player, a top women’s basketball league in the U.S., and long-time advocate for equity in sport, published an op-ed in @usatoday.com reflecting on the issues surrounding the IOC’s new sex testing policy for women athletes. 🔗 Read more: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

🎙️ On March 23rd, the #AthletesNetwork for Safer Sports hosted a session exploring the advances and challenges of safe sport entities, with a focus on how systems can better respond to survivors and support meaningful reform. 🔗 Learn more: sportandrightsalliance.org/do-it-well-a...

🚨With two months to go before the World Cup, @hrw.org warns that host city committees have fallen short on the Human Rights Action Plans required by #FIFA. 🔗 Read the full #HRW analysis: www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...

Ever so proud of our work at @sportrightsall.bsky.social & especially what we've accomplished over the last year!

🚨 Our work to raise the bar for sport and human rights in 2025 made one thing clear: policies are being put to the test and the world of sport is being called to rise to the occasion. 🔗 Read our 2025 Annual Report: sportandrightsalliance.org/2025-annual-...

🗣️ @andreaflorence.bsky.social, #SRA Executive Director, spoke to France 24 about the International Olympic Committee’s decision to reintroduce universal genetic sex testing for women and girls competing in sport.

📣 A new @amnesty.org report warns that, just months before the 2026 FIFA #WorldCup kicks off, fans and communities across host countries risk facing serious human rights violations. 🔗 Read the full #Amnesty report: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

🏳️‍⚧️ On Trans Day of Visibility, we celebrate trans athletes and their right to belong in everywhere. Grace McKenzie shares how rugby became a space of resilience and community in her journey. 🔗 Meet Grace and join the conversation. Register for group sessions: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Over 500,000 people were deported from the USA in 2025 – six times more than will watch the World Cup final at the MetLife stadium in July. Our new report today outlines the real risks to fans and communities that FIFA and host governments must urgently address. 👇 www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Our @sportrightsall.bsky.social partner @amnesty.org: "This World Cup is no longer the ‘medium risk’ tournament that #FIFA once judged it to be… urgent action is needed to make sure the reality of this World Cup matches its original promise."

It is a shameful day for the Olympic movement - the IOC is going to become the 'gender police' with mandatory sex testing and blanket bans on transgender and DSD athletes. Politically driven, one-size-fits-all rules that ignore rights and fuels wider social discrimination.

📢 We’re excited to welcome Hera Liew (she/her) as the newest Advisory Council member of the #AthletesNetwork — a former figure skater from South Korea and a strategic leader advancing systemic change across Asia’s sporting landscapes 🔗 Learn more: sportandrightsalliance.org/athletes-net...

Our Statement complements previous authoritative statements, such as the one of UN Human Rights experts on Fairness, Inclusion & Non-Discrimination in Sport (ohchr.org/sites/defaul...) & the letter of CSOs led by @sportrightsall.bsky.social (see sportandrightsalliance.org/olympics-sex...).

The #IOC announced a new policy introducing universal genetic sex testing of women & girls, which will ban all transgender athletes from the women’s category, and intersex athletes, unless they undergo further testing to prove testosterone insensitivity. 🔗 sportandrightsalliance.org/olympics-sex...

🚨 At least six clubs based in illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) are currently playing in Israeli leagues, despite #FIFA rules stating clubs cannot play on another member association’s territory without approval. 🔗 Read more: www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas...

On the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we are calling on FIFA to ensure protections for the dignity, safety and rights of everyone at the 2026 Men’s World Cup. ✊

A privilege to be a signatory to this statement. Please watch & read 🙏

"A sex testing and blanket ban policy would be a catastrophic erosion of women's rights and safety. Gender policing and exclusion harms all women and girls, and undermines the very dignity and fairness the IOC claims to uphold." - @andreaflorence.bsky.social / @sportrightsall.bsky.social

🚨 The #IOC is reportedly considering mandatory genetic sex testing and a blanket ban on trans and intersex women in sport. In response, the #SRA and over 80 organizations are calling for these plans to be immediately reversed. 🔗 Read the full statement: sportandrightsalliance.org/olympics-sex...

✊The #SRA has sent a letter to #FIFA President Gianni Infantino calling on FIFA to ensure the 2026 #WorldCup truly lives up to its human rights commitments. 🔗 Read our letter: sportandrightsalliance.org/worldcup2026/

🧵 FIFA has promised a safe, welcoming and ‘inclusive’ tournament through its Human Rights Framework. But under U.S. President Donald Trump, harsh anti-human rights rhetoric and immigration policies are creating fear instead. Read The @sportrightsall.bsky.social letter to FIFA ⬇️

"FIFA has the leverage—& the legal & moral responsibility—to protect everyone who will work at, attend, or watch the 2026 World Cup." The FIFA #WorldCup is on a human rights collision course. #FIFA must act. Keep the World in the World Cup. Our open letter with @sportrightsall.bsky.social 👇

⚽ The 2026 #WorldCup will be the biggest ever. Yet attacks on immigrants, fans, journalists & workers signal a tournament heading in the wrong direction. Join us in calling on #FIFA to keep the *world* in the World Cup. 🔗 Read our open letter to FIFA: sportandrightsalliance.org/worldcup2026/

✊ “Survivor engagement is an empirical and fundamental part of safe sport.” @jujuca1987.bsky.social, SRA Network Coordinator, at the United Globally for Athlete Safety symposium during #MilanoCortina2026.

This #InternationalWomensDay, we call for sporting systems that include, value, protect and celebrate women and girls in all their diversity. Join us. Together, we can build a better world of sport for all women and girls. 💜

This #InternationalWomensDay, renewed attention must be paid to the risks women and children still face in sport. 🔗 Read our full dispatch: sportandrightsalliance.org/failures-in-...

Human rights is a team sport! Grace McKenzie, member of the Athletes Network Advisory Council, spoke on @futureoffs.bsky.social about the lessons from team sports and how they connect to the fight for trans inclusion. 🔗 Watch the full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgtc...

🎉 On 21 February, @ilgaworld.bsky.social & #CompeteProud hosted “When Everyone Can Compete” at the Pride House in Milan, bringing together civil society, advocates, and athlete voices to discuss inclusion in sport with a focus on trans, gender-diverse, and intersex people.

📣 UN human rights experts issued a statement addressing recent eligibility rules in international sport. It was prepared by mandate holders on sexual orientation and gender identity, cultural rights, health, and discrimination against women and girls. 🔗 Read more: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

📣 A new @hrw.org dispatch warns that, just months before the 2026 FIFA #WorldCup kicks off, football is once again rocked by cases of discrimination both off and on the pitch. 🔗 Read the full dispatch: www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...