The Worldwide Hockey Federation (FIH) has joined the International Refugee Discussion board Multi-stakeholder Pledge on Sport for Inclusion and Safety by turning into a signatory right this moment, coinciding with Honorary IOC President Thomas Bach, who chairs IOC Olympic Refuge Basis, addressing the delegates of the International Refugee Discussion board Progress Overview 2025 at the moment being held in Geneva, Switzerland.
The International Refugee Discussion board (GRF) is the world’s largest worldwide gathering in assist of refugees and the communities that host them. The GRF Progress Overview marks the mid-point within the GRF cycle and goals to trace implementation of pledges made on the earlier discussion board.
The Multi-stakeholder Sport Pledge outlines the function that sport can play in bettering the lives of refugees, together with by way of sport programming, coverage change, talent improvement, and communication and advocacy efforts.
As a signatory, FIH has dedicated to:
Below the banner of the Hockey Basis and with the assist of the FIH Academy, supply related assets and expertise improvement/coaching alternatives to make sure the worldwide hockey neighborhood is supported to advertise the inclusion of displaced folks in hockey actions and in hockey communities internet hosting refugees
Below the banner of the Hockey Basis and with the assist of the FIH Academy, implement initiatives to determine and develop teaching experience inside displacement affected communities, supporting refugee coaches to ship common sustainable hockey actions
Promote, by way of its communications, the highly effective function of sport as half of an entire of society response to deal with the challenges of the worldwide displacement disaster
Present temporary updates of its actions in assist of the pledge to the Sport for Refugees Coalition/International Refugee Discussion board crew
Thomas Bach, IOC Honorary President and Chair of the Olympic Refuge Basis, mentioned: “We’re delighted to have the Worldwide Hockey Federation becoming a member of the Sport for Refugees Coalition. Worldwide Federations play a vital function in main their sport ahead within the safety of displaced folks. By means of this initiative, the FIH will guarantee the worldwide hockey neighborhood is supplied to advertise the inclusion of displaced folks worldwide. We welcome the FIH to our Coalition and hope that their instance will encourage different actors throughout the Olympic Motion to affix us.”
FIH President Tayyab Ikram mentioned: “FIH is dedicated to constructing a greater world by way of sport and to supporting improvement, rising participation and bettering accessibility of hockey worldwide. Immediately, I really feel very proud to steer an organisation that has added one other milestone to this daring dedication by turning into a signatory to the Joint Sport Pledge for Inclusion and Safety. I wish to commend the distinctive work accomplished by the Olympic Refuge Basis, and particularly its Chairman, Honorary IOC President Thomas Bach.”
FIH joins greater than 170 organisations, together with over 40 Nationwide Olympic Committees and Worldwide Federations, in addition to governments, refugee-led organisations, UN companies, civil society organisations, non-public sector representatives and past in supporting the pledge.
FIH has additionally lately joined as a signatory of the Assertion from the Sport for Refugees Coalition which is a gaggle of organizations and different entities targeted on supporting displaced folks by way of sport. The Assertion advocates for the combination of sport into refugee response efforts. The Sport for Refugees Coalition is co-convened by the Olympic Refuge Basis, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Company, and the Scort Basis.
As a brand new member of the Sport for Refugees Coalition, FIH endorses the joint assertion calling for governments, donors, sports activities our bodies, and humanitarian actors to embed sport extra totally in refugee responses, forward of the International Refugee Discussion board Progress Overview (GRF PR).
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