INTERPOL Integrity in Sport Bi-Weekly Bulletin – 25 May 2020

Football unites to support International Missing Children’s Day Initiative

Today, on International Missing Children’s Day, FIFA is coming together with over 170 football clubs across six continents to support a new initiative that hopes to help find vulnerable young people. Each club, as well as FIFA, has volunteered to use their social media channels to share videos featuring children who are currently missing all over the world.

CAF initiates financial entitlement payments to clubs

In light of growing concerns and evolving nature of COVID-19 pandemic, leading to the suspension of football activities across the continent, CAF has resolved to accelerate the payment of final tranche of financial rewards to participating clubs in CAF Interclub competitions for the 2019/20 season.

IOC approves a financial envelope of up to USD 800 million to address the COVID-19 crisis

The international olympic committee (ioc) anticipates that it will have to bear costs of up to usd 800 million for its part of the responsibilities for the organisation of the olympic games tokyo 2020, its own extended operations and the support for the wider olympic movement. This amount will be covered by the ioc itself, including any funding from the olympic foundation.

WADA invites stakeholders to nominate candidates for 2021 Standing Committee member vacancies

Consultation on the impact of COVID-19 on Dispute Resolution in Sport

on Monday, 11 May 2020.

WADA hands over priority athlete cases to Anti-Doping Organizations in Russia investigation

Invitation To Tender: For The Review of the England Boxing Safeguarding Policy, Procedures and Guidelines

FIFA statement

FIFA is deeply disappointed that the trial related to the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™ will not take place because it has now become time barred.

WADA set to launch next phase of 2021 Code Implementation Support Program via eLearning platform ADeL

UEFA confirms payments to clubs

The UEFA Executive Committee (ExCo) has today confirmed its commitment to award clubs with a share of the UEFA EURO 2020 income despite the postponement of the tournament until 2021.

Coronavirus shutdown: sharp rise in players reporting depression symptoms

FIFPRO and affiliated national player associations surveyed 1,602 professional footballers in countries that had implemented drastic measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus such as mass home-confinement. 1,134 male players, with a mean age of 26, and 468 female players, with a mean age of 23, took part in the survey.

IOC and Tokyo 2020 Joint Statement - Framework for Preparation of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 Following their Postponement to 2021

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FIFA guidelines to address legal consequences of COVID-19

Following the unprecedented disruption caused by COVID-19 at all levels of football, FIFA has worked on a series of recommendations and guidelines to address some of the key practical issues arising from the pandemic, especially with regard to player contracts and the transfer system generally.

Dedicated COVID-19 working group proposes recommendations after first meeting

The FIFA-Confederations working group which was recently established by the Bureau of the FIFA Council to address the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, and which includes the FIFA administration and secretary generals and top executives from all confederations, has unanimously approved a series of recommendations following its first meeting, which was organised via conference call today.

Relive the FIFA-RFEF 8th International Congress in Football Law

On 27 and 28 September 2019, the FIFA RFEF 8th International Congress in Football Law took place at the HQ of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), in Las Rozas, Madrid.

FIBA publishes Guidelines for the Return to Basketball

MIES (Switzerland) - FIBA has published recommendations on returning to basketball, with the Return to Basketball – Restart Guidelines for National Federations, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A basketball-specific Risk Assessment Tool has also been produced in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO).

CAS dismisses the appeal filed by Bralon Taplin

UNESCO partners CBF project

UNESCO has entered into partnership with a CBF project
Gol do Brasil uses football to help vulnerable children
The partnership was part-financed by the FIFA World Cup Legacy Fund

New book published on the Transfer of Football Players - A Practical Approach to Implementing FIFA Rules

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U.S. Weightlifting Athlete Robert Ortiz Accepts Sanction for Second Anti-Doping Rule Violation

Malawian FA offers support to clubs

The Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has moved in to help cushion clubs and players who have been hit hard financially after the effects of the Coronavirus put a halt to sporting activities in the country for the last one month.

Deepak Agarwal banned for two years

Deepak Agarwal, one of the team owners of the Sindhi's franchise in the 2018 T10 league, accepted one charge of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.

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ICC update following Chief Executives' meeting

IMMAF sets up new Athletes’ Commission

Mauritania becomes 189th country to ratify UNESCO Anti-Doping Convention

Weightlifting Athlete Nicholas Saccente Receives Sanction for Second Anti-Doping Rule Violation

AFC extends postponement of all matches and competitions

Fourth report by independent FIFA Human Rights Advisory Board published

The independent FIFA Human Rights Advisory Board (HRAB), which comprises eight international experts in human rights and related areas, has published its fourth report and recommendations. The report, which covers the period from May to December 2019, recognises the important progress that FIFA has made on human rights over the last few years, while also highlighting the need for the organisation to now focus on embedding accountability for human rights at the political and governance levels.

WADA removes International Taekwondo Federation from World Anti-Doping Code non-compliant list

Football Law Digital 2020 Conference announced

Football Law Digital 2020 Conference launched

Haitian Football Federation President provisionally banned from all football-related activities

In accordance with articles 84 and 85 of the FIFA Code of Ethics, the investigatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has provisionally banned Mr Yves Jean-Bart, President of the Haitian Football Federation (FHF), from all football-related activities at both national and international level, for a period of 90 days.

A match to help the world

The FIFA Foundation will organise its first-ever official football match to raise funds for Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT), a global collaboration to accelerate the development, production and equitable global access to new coronavirus essential health technologies, including diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.

IOC approves a financial envelope of up to USD 800 million to address the COVID-19 crisis

UEFA Appeals Body’s decision on anti-doping rule violation

The UEFA Appeals Body has today announced the following decision.

Kelvin Gastelum Accepts Sanction for Second Violation of UFC Anti-Doping Policy

ESL and ESIC issues ban to Team VAC Player Emil “emilshe1n” Mamedov

‘Raising Our Game’: Lifting up women’s professional football

FIFPRO is today launching Raising Our Game, a forward-thinking report about women’s professional football which puts players at the heart of the planned development and rebuilding of the sport after the coronavirus pandemic.

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U.S. Weightlifting Athlete Rowdy Hurst Receives Sanction for Anti-Doping Rule Violation

The Future of The Olympic Movement Must Include the Ability for Athletes to Collectively Bargain

Victoria Agaar and Jill Pilgrim Join Athletics Integrity Unit Board

The UCI reveals the broad lines of the revised 2020 UCI International Road Calendar

Covid-19: implications for women’s football

A new FIFPRO paper warns that the growth of professional women’s football and evolution into a strong and viable industry is threatened by the implications of Covid-19. The absence of basic worker protections and global industry standards for working conditions in women’s football also mean the livelihoods of female players are extremely vulnerable.