Equal opportunities and Inclusion

Gender and Rights

Sport is a right for everyone. But there are still too many gender discriminations, based on stereotypes, prejudices, false models. Through concrete actions, Uisp aims to overcome the obstacles that prevent women, girls, and children from accessing sports. Training, awareness, and activities are the central points for a different, fair and equal sports culture.

The basis is the European Charter of Women's Rights in Sport, developed by Uisp since 1985, which focuses on language, to enhance differences; the respect for people's bodies, with their different specificities. Uisp is committed to creating acceptance and gender equality in the educational center that sport represents. A work that continues with "Futura", a space to deepen and compare with different knowledge, beyond the sports field.

Here are the actions to work on in terms of gender equality: encouraging the valorization of different attitudes between male and female practice; promoting projects to combat male violence against women, spreading experiences such as the Differences project, collaborating with Anti-Violence Centers; commitment to the network of women's associations, to promote well-being through movement and sport, removing the obstacles that limit their practice, in a network with other organizations committed to rights for people.

LGBTQI+: Uisp against homophobia

On May 17, 1990, the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from the list of mental disorders in the International Classification of Diseases.

Uisp has long been committed to these issues against all forms of discrimination, against homophobia and transphobia still strongly present in sport and in our society. It did it during the Winter Paralympics in Sochi (with the campaign "To Sochi for rights"), and it does it at all times with campaigns, initiatives and projects, because sport is a right for everyone, for all.

Uisp aims to overcome the obstacles that prevent access to sport, and in this direction it promotes sports experiences that allow transsexual and transgender athletes to compete, which is why we have chosen to activate the Alias ​​membership, that we are presenting to the entire sport world. Uisp was indeed the first sports association to allow transgender people to carry out activities and be recognized with their chosen gender through the Alias ​​membership card. This attention also passes through the activities and experimentation that is developed in the area, with experiences that aim to welcome all people, no one excluded.

Furthermore, training, awareness, projects are the central points to grow a different sports culture that is more inclusive and equal. The creation of a Decalogue for the rights of LGBTQI+ people in sports, in collaboration with the Sinapsi Academic Center of the Federico II University of Naples and the Parthenope University, to educate on differences and make our activities and our locations increasingly welcoming.