Rachel Causey
@causeyrach.bsky.social
@sportrightsall.bsky.social | hope | human rights | hot honey pizza | 📍nyc
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This is very weak from Spurs - taking down a flag promoting diversity because away fans may be bigoted.
If you can’t stand up for your values when attacked, are they really values at all?
If you can’t stand up for your values when attacked, are they really values at all?
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This is very weak from Spurs - taking down a flag promoting diversity because away fans may be bigoted.
If you can’t stand up for your values when attacked, are they really values at all?
If you can’t stand up for your values when attacked, are they really values at all?
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Imagine being a head of state and calling a made-up award from a sports club one of the “honors of your life.”
December 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Imagine being a head of state and calling a made-up award from a sports club one of the “honors of your life.”
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Let us be very clear: this baby's rattle is not awarded "on behalf of billions of fans around the world", as FIFA claims. It’s nothing more than an ego-stroking stunt.
This is a deeply troubling day for football & FIFA.
This is a deeply troubling day for football & FIFA.
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Let us be very clear: this baby's rattle is not awarded "on behalf of billions of fans around the world", as FIFA claims. It’s nothing more than an ego-stroking stunt.
This is a deeply troubling day for football & FIFA.
This is a deeply troubling day for football & FIFA.
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Awful, awful news from Algeria. The French government must act now, and we journalists must put pressure to ensure it does. @liberation.fr @lemonde.fr @lefigaro.fr @franceinter.fr @leparisien.fr
www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20...
www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20...
Algerian court increases jail time for French journalist convicted of 'terrorism'
A court in Tizi Ouzou, in eastern Algeria, on Wednesday announced a ten-year sentence in the appeal trial of French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes, accused among other things of "glorifying terr...
www.rfi.fr
December 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Awful, awful news from Algeria. The French government must act now, and we journalists must put pressure to ensure it does. @liberation.fr @lemonde.fr @lefigaro.fr @franceinter.fr @leparisien.fr
www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20...
www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20...
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🚨The #AthletesNetwork will host a workshop to share key findings & insights from our global consultation with people impacted by abuse in sport on UNESCO’s Global Policy Standards for Safe Sport.
🔗 Register now: sportandrightsalliance.org/activity/wor...
🔗 Register now: sportandrightsalliance.org/activity/wor...
December 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🚨The #AthletesNetwork will host a workshop to share key findings & insights from our global consultation with people impacted by abuse in sport on UNESCO’s Global Policy Standards for Safe Sport.
🔗 Register now: sportandrightsalliance.org/activity/wor...
🔗 Register now: sportandrightsalliance.org/activity/wor...
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🚨 The deaths of ten child athletes aged 14 to 16 in a fire in 2019 at the youth academy of #Flamengo – Brazil’s top football club – have raised critical questions about safeguarding and accountability in Brazilian sport.
🔗 Full #SRA statement: sportandrightsalliance.org/brazil-ensur...
🔗 Full #SRA statement: sportandrightsalliance.org/brazil-ensur...
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🚨 The deaths of ten child athletes aged 14 to 16 in a fire in 2019 at the youth academy of #Flamengo – Brazil’s top football club – have raised critical questions about safeguarding and accountability in Brazilian sport.
🔗 Full #SRA statement: sportandrightsalliance.org/brazil-ensur...
🔗 Full #SRA statement: sportandrightsalliance.org/brazil-ensur...
This guidance will become one of the highest, most wide-reaching standards for #safesport in the world – and in a historic first, athlete survivors & allies have had a say in its development.
👏 to @jujuca1987.bsky.social, @andreaflorence.bsky.social & all at #UNESCO for this amazing accomplishment.
👏 to @jujuca1987.bsky.social, @andreaflorence.bsky.social & all at #UNESCO for this amazing accomplishment.
📣 Today, athletes impacted by abuse in sport gathered at #UNESCO headquarters in Paris to give input on the Global Policy Standards for Inclusive, Equitable and Safe Sport and Physical Education.
🔗 Read more: sportandrightsalliance.org/unesco-and-s...
🔗 Read more: sportandrightsalliance.org/unesco-and-s...
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This guidance will become one of the highest, most wide-reaching standards for #safesport in the world – and in a historic first, athlete survivors & allies have had a say in its development.
👏 to @jujuca1987.bsky.social, @andreaflorence.bsky.social & all at #UNESCO for this amazing accomplishment.
👏 to @jujuca1987.bsky.social, @andreaflorence.bsky.social & all at #UNESCO for this amazing accomplishment.
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7 #Ligue1 clubs have joined @rsf.org in calling for the release of #ChristopheGleizes, French football journalist detained in Algeria. #FreeGleizes ✊
https://rsf.org/fr/france-sept-clubs-de-football-de-ligue-1-mobilis%C3%A9s-pour-la-lib%C3%A9ration-de-christophe-gleizes-d%C3%A9tenu #FreeGleizes
https://rsf.org/fr/france-sept-clubs-de-football-de-ligue-1-mobilis%C3%A9s-pour-la-lib%C3%A9ration-de-christophe-gleizes-d%C3%A9tenu #FreeGleizes
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
7 #Ligue1 clubs have joined @rsf.org in calling for the release of #ChristopheGleizes, French football journalist detained in Algeria. #FreeGleizes ✊
https://rsf.org/fr/france-sept-clubs-de-football-de-ligue-1-mobilis%C3%A9s-pour-la-lib%C3%A9ration-de-christophe-gleizes-d%C3%A9tenu #FreeGleizes
https://rsf.org/fr/france-sept-clubs-de-football-de-ligue-1-mobilis%C3%A9s-pour-la-lib%C3%A9ration-de-christophe-gleizes-d%C3%A9tenu #FreeGleizes
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🚨 Content warning | Cheikh Touré, a promising young football player from #Senegal, was found dead after being targeted by fake recruiters in Ghana, according to media reports and Senegal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
🔗 Learn more: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
🔗 Learn more: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨 Content warning | Cheikh Touré, a promising young football player from #Senegal, was found dead after being targeted by fake recruiters in Ghana, according to media reports and Senegal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
🔗 Learn more: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
🔗 Learn more: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
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The IOC is moving toward a blanket ban on trans women in women’s sport, under the “working group on the protection of women’s sport.” But a real consultation would never lead to this.
🔗Learn why this process has been flawed from the start: sportandrightsalliance.org/olympics-sec...
🔗Learn why this process has been flawed from the start: sportandrightsalliance.org/olympics-sec...
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The IOC is moving toward a blanket ban on trans women in women’s sport, under the “working group on the protection of women’s sport.” But a real consultation would never lead to this.
🔗Learn why this process has been flawed from the start: sportandrightsalliance.org/olympics-sec...
🔗Learn why this process has been flawed from the start: sportandrightsalliance.org/olympics-sec...
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#SRA staff and partners have presented in several sessions the past two days. 📸 Stay tuned for live coverage from our colleagues in Finland! #PTG2025 @jujuca1987.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
#SRA staff and partners have presented in several sessions the past two days. 📸 Stay tuned for live coverage from our colleagues in Finland! #PTG2025 @jujuca1987.bsky.social
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Play the Game is underway in Tampere, Finland! 👏
The conference brings together journalists, researchers, athletes, and more from across the world to confront a range of issues that affect global sport. 💪
@andreaflorence.bsky.social @minkyworden.bsky.social @hrwdeutschland.bsky.social
The conference brings together journalists, researchers, athletes, and more from across the world to confront a range of issues that affect global sport. 💪
@andreaflorence.bsky.social @minkyworden.bsky.social @hrwdeutschland.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Play the Game is underway in Tampere, Finland! 👏
The conference brings together journalists, researchers, athletes, and more from across the world to confront a range of issues that affect global sport. 💪
@andreaflorence.bsky.social @minkyworden.bsky.social @hrwdeutschland.bsky.social
The conference brings together journalists, researchers, athletes, and more from across the world to confront a range of issues that affect global sport. 💪
@andreaflorence.bsky.social @minkyworden.bsky.social @hrwdeutschland.bsky.social
My colleague @jujuca1987.bsky.social & her team have pulled off a nearly impossible feat -- a courageous, caring report that dares to ask the hard questions while centering the answers of the voices who matter most. ❤️
🚨 Our new report w/ @thomasmore-be.bsky.social, “No One Wants to Talk About It” addresses the eligibility of athletes with criminal sexual convictions in mega sporting events.
➡️ https://sportandrightsalliance.org/new-report-no-one-wants-to-talk-about-it/
➡️ https://sportandrightsalliance.org/new-report-no-one-wants-to-talk-about-it/
October 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
My colleague @jujuca1987.bsky.social & her team have pulled off a nearly impossible feat -- a courageous, caring report that dares to ask the hard questions while centering the answers of the voices who matter most. ❤️
check on your swiftie friends today...
your ex-swiftie friends, however, are having a banner day on the socials 🤣
your ex-swiftie friends, however, are having a banner day on the socials 🤣
October 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
check on your swiftie friends today...
your ex-swiftie friends, however, are having a banner day on the socials 🤣
your ex-swiftie friends, however, are having a banner day on the socials 🤣
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BREAKING🚨 Journalist Mario Guevara has officially been deported Friday from the United States back to his native El Salvador. This is a shameful erosion of press freedom in the U.S. — the first time that CPJ has documented this type of retaliation related to reporting.
cpj.org/2025/10/jour...
cpj.org/2025/10/jour...
October 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
BREAKING🚨 Journalist Mario Guevara has officially been deported Friday from the United States back to his native El Salvador. This is a shameful erosion of press freedom in the U.S. — the first time that CPJ has documented this type of retaliation related to reporting.
cpj.org/2025/10/jour...
cpj.org/2025/10/jour...
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#Amnesty SG @agnescallamard.bsky.social said that as Israel’s national football team prepares for the #WorldCup qualifiers, #Israel continues to perpetrate genocide in #Gaza – where over 800 athletes, players and sports officials are among the more than 65,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces.
October 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
#Amnesty SG @agnescallamard.bsky.social said that as Israel’s national football team prepares for the #WorldCup qualifiers, #Israel continues to perpetrate genocide in #Gaza – where over 800 athletes, players and sports officials are among the more than 65,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces.
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@amnesty.org has sent a letter to #FIFA and #UEFA calling for the suspension of the Israeli Football Association from their tournaments until it excludes clubs based in illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
Read more ⤵️
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Read more ⤵️
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
October 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
@amnesty.org has sent a letter to #FIFA and #UEFA calling for the suspension of the Israeli Football Association from their tournaments until it excludes clubs based in illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
Read more ⤵️
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Read more ⤵️
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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She was so brilliant. One of the greats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
She was so brilliant. One of the greats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Incredible news this morning 🙌 Congrats to these amazing players & @khalidapopal.bsky.social for all your hard work!!!
inside.fifa.com/human-rights...
#FIFA #AWNT #AfghanWomen
inside.fifa.com/human-rights...
#FIFA #AWNT #AfghanWomen
Afghan women’s refugee team inaugural squad announced ahead of historic friendly competition
Following the three multi-day talent identification camps held on two continents, a historic and inspiring opportunity now beckons for the 23 players selected to represent the Afghan women’s refugee t...
inside.fifa.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Incredible news this morning 🙌 Congrats to these amazing players & @khalidapopal.bsky.social for all your hard work!!!
inside.fifa.com/human-rights...
#FIFA #AWNT #AfghanWomen
inside.fifa.com/human-rights...
#FIFA #AWNT #AfghanWomen
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Amnesty write letter to Fifa/Uefa calling on a ban for Israel over clubs playing games on occupied land, with gen sec Agnes Callemard also referencing how "Israel continues to perpetrate genocide"
Fifa has been accused of delaying decision on former
www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
Fifa has been accused of delaying decision on former
www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
Amnesty International calls on Fifa and Uefa to suspend Israeli Football Association
The letter, signed by Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard, argues the Israeli Football Association have breached Fifa statutes, amid growing calls for its exclusion
www.independent.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Amnesty write letter to Fifa/Uefa calling on a ban for Israel over clubs playing games on occupied land, with gen sec Agnes Callemard also referencing how "Israel continues to perpetrate genocide"
Fifa has been accused of delaying decision on former
www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
Fifa has been accused of delaying decision on former
www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
This closed-door process doesn't "protect the integrity of the group and their work" – it jeopardizes it.
This is a decision that will impact millions of women & girls all over the world, for who knows how long into the future. The stakes are simply too high for this lack of transparency.
This is a decision that will impact millions of women & girls all over the world, for who knows how long into the future. The stakes are simply too high for this lack of transparency.
🚨 The IOC has created a new working group on “Protection of the Female Category.”
Unlike other WGs, its members and approach won’t be disclosed – an alarming move that puts the rights and protection of all women at risk.
📢 Read our full statement:
sportandrightsalliance.org/olympics-sec...
Unlike other WGs, its members and approach won’t be disclosed – an alarming move that puts the rights and protection of all women at risk.
📢 Read our full statement:
sportandrightsalliance.org/olympics-sec...
September 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This closed-door process doesn't "protect the integrity of the group and their work" – it jeopardizes it.
This is a decision that will impact millions of women & girls all over the world, for who knows how long into the future. The stakes are simply too high for this lack of transparency.
This is a decision that will impact millions of women & girls all over the world, for who knows how long into the future. The stakes are simply too high for this lack of transparency.
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Amnesty International calls on UEFA + FIFA to suspend the Israeli Football Association until it excludes clubs from settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory from continuing to play in its leagues.
September 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Amnesty International calls on UEFA + FIFA to suspend the Israeli Football Association until it excludes clubs from settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory from continuing to play in its leagues.
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All French journalism schools unite to ask for the liberation of football journalist Christophe Gleizes, who has now been imprisoned for three months by the Algerian authorities, who accuse him of "glorifying terrorism" among other trumped-up charges. #FreeGleizes
Le SNJ salue l'initiative des écoles de journalisme engagées pour réclamer la libération de notre confrère Christophe Gleizes, journaliste emprisonné en Algérie
#FreeGleizes
rsf.org/fr/libert%C3...
#FreeGleizes
rsf.org/fr/libert%C3...
Liberté pour Christophe Gleizes emprisonné en Algérie : 16 écoles de journalisme françaises se mobilisent
Pour appeler, à l’occasion du troisième mois de détention du journaliste sportif Christophe Gleizes en Algérie, à sa libération, 16 écoles de journalisme françaises se mobilisent conjointement. Repor...
rsf.org
September 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
All French journalism schools unite to ask for the liberation of football journalist Christophe Gleizes, who has now been imprisoned for three months by the Algerian authorities, who accuse him of "glorifying terrorism" among other trumped-up charges. #FreeGleizes
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Your voice matters.
Take part in our survey and help @unesco.org develop global safe sport policy standards through the lens of those most impacted. ✊ @jujuca1987.bsky.social
🔗 sportandrightsalliance.org/your-voice-m...
Take part in our survey and help @unesco.org develop global safe sport policy standards through the lens of those most impacted. ✊ @jujuca1987.bsky.social
🔗 sportandrightsalliance.org/your-voice-m...
September 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Your voice matters.
Take part in our survey and help @unesco.org develop global safe sport policy standards through the lens of those most impacted. ✊ @jujuca1987.bsky.social
🔗 sportandrightsalliance.org/your-voice-m...
Take part in our survey and help @unesco.org develop global safe sport policy standards through the lens of those most impacted. ✊ @jujuca1987.bsky.social
🔗 sportandrightsalliance.org/your-voice-m...