- defining harassment and abuse
- Safeguarding Resources
- Policy
- Funds
- The Calm Zone
- Online Protection
The ISU Code of Ethics and the ISU Safeguarding Policy set out definitions of Harassment and Abuse and describe how concerns and complaints about abuse, harassment, and athlete protection are addressed. . In the Code of Ethics, the ISU has adopted the definitions of the various forms of harassment and abuse as set out in the IOC Consensus Statement (2016).
Your club or organization may have Codes of Conduct or other documents that promote a positive environment and ensure that everyone is aware of the expected standards of behaviour.
Definitions help everyone involved in skating to understand what kinds of behaviour are unacceptable.
means unwanted and unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of a sexual nature. Sexual harassment can take the form of sexual abuse.
means any conduct of a sexual nature, whether non-contact, contact or penetrative, where consent is manipulated or is not or cannot be given, where consent is coerced, manipulated, obtained based on a relationship of dependency or cannot be given with any legal validity.
means any deliberate, non-accidental trauma or unwelcome act caused, for example, by punching, beating, kicking, biting, or burning or otherwise physically harming an athlete. Such act can also consist of forced or inappropriate physical activity (e.g. age- or physique-inappropriate training loads when injured or in pain), forced alcohol consumption, or forced or systemic doping practices.
means a pattern of deliberate, prolonged, repeated non-contact behaviors within a power differentiated relationship. “Psychological abuse” can consist of any unwelcome act including confinement, isolation, verbal assault, humiliation, intimidation, infantilization, or any other treatment which may diminish the sense of identity, dignity and self-worth. This form of abuse is at the core of all other forms of abuse.
is a type of “psychological abuse”. “Online abuse” encompasses various forms of harmful behavior on digital platforms. It entails the use of violent, aggressive hate speech, directed at an individual or a specific subgroup sharing a common identity. It is typically rooted in factors like race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, physical appearance, or is sexualized in nature. The most common forms of “Online abuse” in sport are: flaming, harassment, denigration, outing, and cybestalking (you can find definitions of these here)
means the failure of a Coach or another person with a duty of care towards an athlete to provide a minimum level of care, thereby causing harm, allowing harm to be caused or creating an immediate danger of harm. “Neglect or negligence” can consist of acts of omission
