Article: Sport and the sexually abused male child
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Abstract
International
[International] Safeguarding the Rights of Children in Sports on World Children’s Day
Children face violence and abuse everyday; every fourth girl in Jamaica and every fifth girl in Europe has been a victim of sexual harassment. Unfortunately, sport is one of the most common areas where violence against and abuse of children takes place.
Karen Madden gives some of the reasons why sport provides a space for violence and abuse:
[International] Seven Key Relationships in the Safeguarding in Sport Movement
Kupakwashe Desmond Mukurumbira, Board Member of UNICEF, has written a piece on key relationships in safeguarding in sports. It outlines seven key relationships which safeguarding in sport experts should understand, manage and develop for successful formulation and implementation of safeguarding in sports initiatives.
1. Sport Organisation to Sport Organisation: for example, relations between national sports federations with regional, continental and international federations.
Child Exploitation and the FIFA World Cup: A review of risks and protective interventions [Brunel University London]
This review was commissioned by the Child Abuse Programme (CAP) of Oak Foundation, a large international philanthropic organisation. It forms part of CAP’s effort to win societal rejection of practices such as the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents around major sporting events (MSEs), and to embed prevention and protection from exploitation as a permanent concern for global sports-related bodies.
Children’s Rights in the Sports Context
Executive Summary
International Safeguards for Children in Sport
This document details eight safeguards that should be put in place by any organisation providing sports activities to children and young people. Reflecting international legal and child protection standards and good practice, these Safeguards have been informed by research conducted by Brunel University with a diverse range of perspectives from different countries and have been piloted by organisations all over the world.
The eight safeguards are:
Child Safeguarding Toolkit for Business [UNICEF]
UNICEF has published a step-by-step guidance for businesses on how to set up their onw, internal child safeguarding policies, in order to ensure the safety and rights of children that come into contact wiht the organisation or its products and services.
The impact of worldwide sporting events on children
‘Thomson Reuters Foundation’ published an article of Terre des hommes Lausanne- in collaboration with Terre des hommes International Federation about the effect worldwide sporting events can have on children. It recalls that the resettlement of whole sections of the population may lead to school dropout among the most vulnerable children, while the large construction projects for stadiums is not coupled with the construction of social services for the local population.