Mali: Inquiry Links Basketball Federation to Sexual Abuse

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image The FIBA logo on its headquarters, the House of Basketball, in Mies, Switzerland, June 2013. © 2013 BORIS HEGER/AFP via Getty Images (Nyon, Switzerland) – The International Basketball Federation’s (FIBA) report on systemic sexual harassment and abuse within the Mali Basketball Federation (FMBB) vindicates the victims of abuse, survivors, whistleblowers, and activists who took enormous risks to bring this abuse to light, the Sport & Rights Alliance said today. After the New York Times and Human Rights Watch documented sexual abuse and cover-ups in Mali basketball…

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