Global network to tackle sexual abuse in sport planned by Fifa and UN agency

  • Move follows Guardian investigations in Afghanistan and Haiti
  • Campaigners sceptical whether body can be impartial and safe

A global investigative network intended to tackle sexual abuse across all sports is due to be established by Fifa and a United Nations agency next year in the wake of the scandals in Afghanistan and Haiti revealed by the Guardian.

Details of the plans are contained in a report commissioned by Fifa and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in response to what it described as “the challenging learnings of complex, devastating and serious sexual abuses in Afghanistan and Haitian football”.

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