by Peace and Sport | Jan 22, 2020 | Watch
Respect and protection of women’s rights are essential for building a peaceful and inclusive society. Sport should uphold this by fighting against discrimination, mistreatment and abuse. Violence is real and exists all the way up the ladder. The scandal in...
by Peace and Sport | Jan 6, 2020 | Watch
“Odd-numbered years have been good to us. They have written Peace and Sport’s history in capital letters. Our organization was created in 2007. Two years later, we started the Friendship Games in Africa and we launched the Champions for Peace club. In 2019, the...
by Peace and Sport | Dec 4, 2019 | Watch
“What would I have become without high performance sport? What would my life have been like without figure skating? More than twenty years after the end of my international career, I still do not know how to answer these questions. I might have been a...
by Peace and Sport | Nov 21, 2019 | Watch
“I discovered football when I was 7 years old. In Bethlehem, in my country Palestine. When I started, girls didn’t kick balls. Nobody accepted it. There was nothing for us. No teams, no coaches, no equipment. Nothing. But I insisted. In my world of barbed...
by Peace and Sport | Nov 5, 2019 | Watch
“Sport has changed my life. It has made me. It has brought me so much, including an Olympic medal – bronze – in the kayak single men’s slalom at the 2008 Beijing Games. The first Olympic medal in Togo’s history. But sport has also given me...
by Peace and Sport | Oct 23, 2019 | Watch
“I believe in the power of sport. Life has taught me that it can change things and play a crucial part in inclusion and education. I’ve always thought this. Nowadays, I still have the same belief in the strength and impact of its values. That’s why,...