PROMOTING INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE: HOW TO OVERCOME

ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION AND RACISM IN THE BALKAN REGION

Skopje, 14-15.10.2010

Ewa MarkowiczMember of the Bureau

of the EPAS Governing Board

Introduction to EPAS

Pan-European Cooperation on sport policies

Since May 2007: 33 Member States:

Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”

+1 Observer: Turkey.

Dialogue and Co-operation with Sports movement

15 non-governmental partners: European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation (ENGSO), Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), European Sport For All Network (ESFAN-TAFISA), European Gay & Lesbian Sport Federation (EGLSF), Peace and Sport Organisation, European Judo Union (EJU), European Rugby Association (FIRA-AER), International Federation of Basketball– Europe (FIBA

Europe), European Fair Play Movement (EFPM), International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA), Homeless World Cup Foundation, European Olympic Committees (EOC), European Paralympic Committee (EPC), International Council of Sports Science and PE (ICSSPE), International Sports Federations (Sport Accord)

European Sport Charter &

Code of Sport Ethics

adopted in 1992; updated in 2001

a common set of principles for all Europe references to the social inclusion trough sport

EUROPEAN SPORTS CHARTER

„No discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status, shall be permitted in the access to sports facilities or to sports activities.”

MS should take necessary steps to „enable every individual to participate in sport”

EPAS Programmes on the fight against discrimination in sport

Examples: Belgrade ConferenceFight against racism and racial discrimination in sport

Seminar on Promoting intercultural dialogue: the role of sport and education in the Balkan region with FARE.

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