Brendan Schwab, executive director of the WPA, likened the institutional and state-mandated doping uncovered in Russia by the World Anti-Doping Agency and International Olympic Committee investigations to something close to « subjecting athletes to scientific experimentation in pursuit of sporting success ».

Among the 17 articles laid out in the document are an athlete’s right to freedom of opinion and expression, the ability to organise and bargain collectively and to have a work place free of discrimination.

Schwab also urged FIFA’s Bahraini senior vice-president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa to « use the power of his office » to win Alaraibi’s release, warning that failure to do so would be « a fundamental breach of hi

Union leaders also made clear that their members needed to be protected from an anti-doping system that is focused on athletes and not on the leagues, federations, countries and owners who might support and encourage the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Jan Grenci, a reference specialist for posters at the Library of Congress, said the posters, created for a government agency called the Work Projects Administration (WPA) still have ‘many admirers’ as they are ‘truly American in style.

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Foster said the fact the sheik had been implicated « in some or any way » in the Bahraini government’s crackdown on athletes in 2011-2012 and his silence on al-Araibi’s situation should exclude him from seeking a third term.

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He said it was incumbent on FIFA President Gianni Infantino, Samoura and FIFA as an organisation to threaten Bahrain with sporting sanctions if it proceeded with the attempts at refoulement, the forcible return of a refugee, via Thailand’s legal system.

He was detained entering Thailand for a vacation and held « with a substantial number of other detainees… in very trying conditions », Brendan Schwab, executive director of the World Players’ Association (WPA), told AFP

Hakeem Alaraibi, 25, who played for the gulf state’s national youth team, fled his homeland and was granted asylum in Australia where he plays semi-professionally for the second-tier team Pascoe Vale FC in

« I find it somewhat ironic when it comes to the issues of clean sport that there is almost an automatic leap to issues of doping and athlete cheating and virtually no discussion about the corruption that has clearly infected sports bodies, sports leagues and sports owners, » said Smith.

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The World Players Association (WPA), whose member unions include FIFPro, NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB and which represents more than 85,000 athletes from 60 countries, hailed the declaration as the first comprehensive articulation of athletes´ rights.

Jan Grenci, a reference specialist for posters at the Library of Congress, said: ‘The Library of Congress has more than 900 posters made by the WPA, which is the largest surviving collection of these beautiful, original prints, most of which are silkscreens.

The Swiss-based World Players’ Association (WPA), which represents 85,000 players in over 60 countries, has called on Sheikh Salman al-Khalifa, the president of the Asian Football Federation (AFC), to help win al-Araibi’s release.

They carry public health messages, aiming to halt the spread of infectious diseases like syphilis and tuberculosis, and encouraging people to eat a good diet, exercise and seek advice on parenting techniques.

DeMaurice Smith, the director of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), said if sport was truly to rid itself of drugs, anti-doping crusaders needed to look beyond the athlete and what was taking place on the field of play.

« This has occurred under the eyes of an international governance system that imposed a very strict and rigid framework which we believe does not respect the fundamental rights of athletes, in terms of the presumption of innocence, in terms of rights for a fair trial, in terms of just and proportionate penalties, » said Schwab during a conference call from Washington D.C.

Dec 14 (Reuters) – The world’s leading players’ associations unveiled a universal declaration of player rights on Thursday designed to give athletes a global voice and protect them from the fallout from corruption and a broken anti-doping system.