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The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has recommended major reform in the sport of gymnastics after an independent review uncovered an abusive and a “win-at-all-costs” culture that creates “unacceptable risks” for the safety and wellbeing of young women and girls.
These findings detailed negative coaching behaviours that create a risk of harm or abuse to athletes, body shaming practices that can cause long-term eating disorders, a silencing of the athlete voice and a failure to adequately address complaints of abuse and harm.
The commission engaged with Gymnastics Australia in August 2020 to conduct the review following repeated claims of abuse in the sport. It interviewed 57 members of Australia’s gymnastics community and heard 138 written submissions.
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Advocates for human rights and Australians stranded overseas have welcomed a request from the United Nations for the federal government to facilitate and ensure the prompt return of two of its citizens.
The government must now also respond to claims brought on the pair s behalf by human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC that Australia has breached international law by preventing them from returning home for over a year due to arbitrary caps on travel, stranded citizen advocacy group Free and Open Australia advocacy group says.
The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) has been looking into complaints filed by the two Australians - Jason George and Alex, whose surname has been withheld. The pair are among the tens of thousands of Australians still stranded overseas.