{"id":2077,"date":"2016-01-08T14:21:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T12:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2016-01-08T14:21:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T12:21:09","slug":"8-1-2016-forum-club-handball-condemns-discrimination-in-handball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/?p=2077","title":{"rendered":"8.1.2016: Forum Club Handball condemns discrimination in Handball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Scandal on the fringes of the Women World Championship in Denmark 2015: The well-known and highly qualified female German official Jutta Ehrmann-Wolf complained in various interviews about the fact that she was not \u00a0nominated for the tournament due to her sexual orientation. Jutta Ehrmann-Wolf is married to a women. According to her statement she received this clear and unambiguous message from a Council member of the International Handball Federation (IHF); the family situation is not accepted by the President of the IHF, Dr. Hassan Moustafa. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">The same holds true for Spanish \u00a0Carmen Manchado, also a well-known and highly qualified delegate. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">According to the official IHF version, both delegates are not nominated \u2018due to technical reasons\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">According to the understanding of Women FCH this behavior of the IHF is directed against Olympic values and principles. Today all international federations face a lack of female officials. Usually they try to include as many of them as possible in women competitions. Without any doubt the decision of the IHF is directed against the attempts to achieve gender equality in sports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">The Board of Women Forum Club Handball has decided to take position against this type of discrimination and expressed full support to Mrs. Jutta Ehrmann-Wolf\/GER and Mrs. Carmen Manchado\/ESP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">On behalf of Women Forum Club Handball, President E. Kelescenyi\/HUN filed a complaint to the President of the International Olympic Committee:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWe strongly believe in the Olympic idea and in Dr. Thomas Bach as a person. We believe that he will take appropriate measures to exclude similar discrimination in the future!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scandal on the fringes of the Women World Championship in Denmark 2015: The well-known and highly qualified female German official Jutta Ehrmann-Wolf complained in various interviews about the fact that she was not \u00a0nominated for the tournament due to her sexual orientation. Jutta Ehrmann-Wolf is married to a women. According to her statement she received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"http:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}