July 2015

Fare Network Anti Racism Campaign in Russia

July 20, 2015 // 5 Comments

Hi everyone. I got this email from Pavel. Kindly read and lets get pro-active people! You may contact me directly or reply to this post if you have any questions. My name is Pavel Klymenko, I work for the Fare Network, largest anti-discrimination network in European football. We have members in more than 30 countries including Russia and focus our activities on fighting all forms of discrimination in football and promote diversity and tolerance through football. We work to support ethnic and other minority communities and foster inclusion in society through football. You can read more about our work here – http://www.farenet.org/ but in short we a membership-based European network of organisations using football to fight discrimination and prejudice and supporting ethnic and other minority communities through football. Our major annual activity is Football People Action Weeks in October where we support ethnic and other minority groups with small grants to organise football tournaments, debates and community activities. We also support educational projects by our members throughout the year and run an Observer scheme at UEFA matches registering cases of racism and other forms of discrimination during football matches. We are currently looking into Russia because of the upcoming FIFA [...]