The 2016 International Sports Report Card on Women in Leadership Roles is the first graded report card on the representation of women in leadership roles in international sport and was released by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida.

The international football players’ union FIFPro unveils the results from a survey concerning working conditions conducted among close to 14,000 players from 54 countries and 87 leagues in Europe, the Americas and Africa. A separate report exists that covers Asia and Oceania. The results show that for a large part of players, the life as a professional footballer entails irregular pay, uncertain futures and a short career.

ASOIF commissioned this study to establish the full extent of the 28 International Federations’ anti-doping practices and incurred financial costs. The survey has four principal objectives: 1. Establish the anti-doping processes that individual International Federations implement within their respective sports 2. Quantify the financial resources devoted to the International Federations’ anti-doping efforts in 2015 3. Compare these resources with those in the 2010 Report 4. Learn best practices from International Federations experience on how to better protect the clean athlete.

The role of the WADA IO Team is to help instill confidence in both athletes and the public in the quality, effectiveness, and reliability of the IOC’s anti-doping program for the Games. It does this by observing (by random sampling) all aspects of the Games antidoping program, and by meeting with the IOC and the LOC on a daily basis during the Games to provide feedback and to suggest areas of possible “real-time” improvement to the program at the Games, as well as by making recommendations in its post-Games report for potential improvements to the program for future editions of the Games.

Despite alerts by civil society organizations to the increased risks of human rights violations in the context of Rio 2016, neither the Brazilian authorities nor the Games’ organizers implemented the necessary measures to prevent such violations from occurring. This led to a repetition of a pattern of violations witnessed during other major sporting events hosted in the city of Rio de Janeiro, namely the Pan American Games in 2007 and the FIFA World Cup in 2014.