Human Rights Watch provides input on violence against women and girls in sport to the United Nations General Assembly. The submission focuses on sexual and gender-based violence in sport in Mali, Haiti, and Afghanistan, child abuse in sport in Japan, and sex testing of women athletes.
Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls to the United Nations General Assembly on violence against women and girls in sport. This submission covers sexual and gender-based violence in sport in Mali , Haiti , and Afghanistan ; child abuse in sport in Japan ; and sex testing of women athletes .
A November 2018 report in the Guardian detailed allegations by 20 female players of repeated sexual assault by the former president of the Afghan Football Federation, Keramuddin Karim, going back to 2016.Following media reports, the Afghan government undertook an investigation. On June 8, 2019, FIFA handed Karim a lifetime ban. On June 9, 2019, the Afghan attorney general issued a warrant for Karim's arrest.
Human Rights Watch found that child abuse in sport remains accepted and normalized in many parts of Japanese society, and that it is difficult for young athletes to file complaints against a powerful coach or official. Schools and federations rarely punish abusive coaches, often allowing them to continue coaching.
The 2019 and 2023 regulations continue sports' governing bodies' long-standing scrutiny and testing of women for conformity to arbitrary standards that has extended for more than 50 years. Sports' governing bodies have acknowledged that sex testing regulations, which have remained consistent in purpose and practice over decades, are inherently degrading and humiliating and have caused serious harm to women.
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