GUIDE TO PREVENT SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ABUSE IN SPORT: STANDARDS FOR A PROTOCOL (GUÍA PARA LA PREVENCIÓN DEL ACOSO Y ABUSO SEXUAL EN EL DEPORTE: PAUTAS PARA UN PROTOCOLO)

Country: Spain

Organisation responsible: The Basque Institute for Women

Main topic addressed: Combating gender-based violence

Type of resource/practice: 

• Awareness-raising initiatives / materials
• Legislation, policies, standards and guidelines

Discipline: Multi-sport

Target group(s): Sport organisations

Timing: 2015

Language: Spanish

Brief description of the practice: This promising practice is the first guideline written with the overall goal of supporting and providing information for future protocols on the prevention of sexual harassment and abuse against women in sport. It is an exhaustive and lengthy 80-page booklet. The ultimate goal of this guide is to contribute to the eradication of violence against women in sport in order to promote a secure and healthy environment in which women and girls can develop their autonomy and well-being while playing sports. As a result, this guide has two objectives. The first is to contribute to raising awareness and knowledge on the fact that some behaviour and conduct are not acceptable in sport and, therefore, how sexual harassment and abuse against women must be prevented in sport. The second is to provide researched guidelines to make Acting Protocols ready to intervene in any situation of sexual harassment and abuse against women in sport.

Further information: http://www.emakunde.euskadi.eus/contenidos/informacion/publicaciones_guias2/es_emakunde/adjuntos/29.guia.deporte.pdf

Contact person: Izaskun Landaida, Director, The Basque Institute for Women, [email protected]