News from FARE partner 'NEVER AGAIN' Association

[Sebahattin Devecioglu]

News from FARE partner 'NEVER AGAIN' Association
20 December 2010


NEVER AGAIN and FARE step up their campaign in Ukraine and Russia in
2011
A new phase of the growing anti-racist campaign in Ukraine starts in
frames of the Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) East European
Development Project coordinated by the NEVER AGAIN' Association. New
activity partners in Ukraine have been confirmed and announced during
meetings held by FARE in Kiev on 15 and 16 December 2010.

The broad spectrum of new FARE partner organisations includes, among
others, the Congress of National Minorities of Ukraine, the National
Council of Youth Organizations of Ukraine, the Kiev Armenian
Community, the Crimean Institution for Civil Society, the Women's
Rights Centre 'La Strada-Ukraine', the Donetsk City Charitable
Foundation 'Dobrota', and the Kharkiv University of Humanities -
People's Ukrainian Academy. Long-term FARE partners - the East
European Development Institute, the African Centre and Football
Against Prejudices - receive increased support for their ongoing
activities, too.

The diverse projects range from monitoring of racist incidents and
specialist trainings for officials and security personnel to awareness-
raising actions, media work, multi-ethnic festivals and tournaments as
well as anti-racist educational activities. The initiatives are
consulted and assisted by the 'NEVER AGAIN' Association. The partners
are supported financially in their planned activities and they are
going to be involved in future FARE actions in the lead up to UEFA
EURO 2012.

In a parallel development, FARE has taken its presence in Russia to a
new level as well. The objectives and activities of the Eastern
European Development Project were presented at an official conference
hosted by the Council of the Federation - the Russian Parliament's
upper house - in its main meeting hall on 17 December. 'Our priority
in Russia is to work with ethnic minorities, anti-racist and human
rights groups, educational institutions as well as interested
officials' - said Dr Rafal Pankowski, the FARE EEP and East Europe
Monitoring Centre coordinator, in his Moscow statement.

The Moscow event took place in the wake of FIFA's decision to host the
2018 World Cup in Russia and a wave of racist football fan riots in
Russian cities. The East Europe Monitoring Centre recently reported
related far-right activities aiming at a spill-over effect in several
Ukrainian regions, for example in the Crimea.

'It is vital to step up anti-racist activities in Eastern European
countries as they prepare to host major international sports events in
the next years’ - said Piara Powar, FARE's Executive Director. - 'We
draw from our regional experience and we are ready to meet new
challenges'.

The 'NEVER AGAIN' Association is an anti-racist educational and
monitoring organization established in Poland in 1996. It runs the
'Let's Kick Racism out of the Stadiums' campaign and actively
participates in the FARE network. Since 2009, 'NEVER AGAIN' has
coordinated the FARE East European Development Project supported by
UEFA in the lead up to EURO 2012 in Poland and Ukraine. 'NEVER AGAIN'
has set up the East Europe Monitoring Centre documenting racism and
xenophobia across the region.


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