The Fare Network (Football Against Racism in Europe) is an organisation that tracks racism and homophobia in the football (soccer) world. For the 2018 World Cup in Russia, they set up a series of 鈥渄iversity houses鈥 for the LGBTQI community and people of colour.
Now in St Petersburg, they have been they were leasing for these safe spaces. Other tenants are also reportedly under instruction not to offer subleases, leaving only the brutal symbolism of a diversity house shuttered.
A country that for more than 70 years maintained an amateur football (soccer) league is today hosting the biggest sporting event in the world, writes Javier Szlifman.
As the 2018 World Cup frenzy starts to take over the news cycle, it is crucial to highlight examples of how the sport has brought people together. Michael Blosser writes that one example is the case of Celtic FC and Palestine, with the Glasgow-based club showing consistent solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.聽
Palestinians are celebrating the聽聽that Argentina 鈥 and its star Lionel Messi 鈥 will not be playing the 鈥渇riendly鈥 football match that had been set for Jerusalem in the coming days.
The cancellation is a huge blow to Israel and came after an intense campaign by Palestinians and their supporters, especially in Latin America and the Spanish state, urging Argentina not to help Israel whitewash its most recent massacres of unarmed civilians in Gaza.
At the same time as the Israeli Defense Force massacred more than 50 Gazans protesting against the US shifting its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, Matte Gallo writes that Italians are joining protests against the decision of the major cycling race Giro d鈥橧talia to start the contest in Israel.
In various stages of this important Italian sporting event, many activists have protested -- waving flags, chanting slogans and making their presence felt energetically.
British聽team聽Leeds United FC is under fire after announcing late last month plans to tour聽Myanmar聽despite the mounting allegations of human rights abuses and 鈥渆thnic cleansing鈥 in the country.
The club revealed its two final post-season games would be in the Myanmar cities of聽Yangon聽and聽Mandalay. The tour will be聽sponsored by a bank that has been linked to the government and, consequently, the hundreds of thousands human rights聽abuses reported by refugee聽Rohingya聽Muslims.
A group of young聽Palestinians聽in聽Gaza聽has founded 鈥淭he Crutches鈥:聽the first聽football (soccer) team聽for聽amputees聽injured during the last three聽Israeli聽attacks on the besieged territory.
Palestinian civil society groups have accused聽Giro d鈥橧talia聽cycling race, which started its first leg聽in Israel on May 4, of covering up Israel鈥檚 war crimes in Gaza and its secret police鈥檚 repression against Giro protests, said Kerry Smith.
Radical US sports writer Dave Zirin asks why a major multinational corporation is sponsoring football (soccer) teams in illegal Israeli settlements.
Sydney is in the grip of "tollway madness" and urgently needs a planning overhaul if it is to become a healthier city, the recent FitNSW forum for planning and health experts was told.
Tasmanian elections are decided by the Hare-Clark system, a method of proportional voting that means a party must secure close to half the total vote to win majority government.
It is a complex system in which a voter has a single transferable vote in one of the five electorates, each of which elect five members of parliament. The system often produces close results and minority governments. It also means seats are rarely decided on election night.
More than halfway through this endless seven-round season, the 2018 AFL Women鈥檚 season has been catastrophe after catastrophe for the AFL.