![Sports respects your rights UK logo](https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cpss/files/2019/08/Sport-Respects-Your-Rights-logo.png)
Between April 2013 and March 2015, CPSS Director Mike Hartill led a youth team from the UK in the project, Sport Respects Your Rights.
SRYR was a transnational project, developed to fight abuse and gender-based violence in the youth sport sector. Funded by the Daphne III Programme 2011/2012 of the European Union, the project ran for 24 months.
![Sport Respects Your Rights UK banner - featuring Edge Hill hockey team players performing the "one-in-five" hand gesture, with an index finger of one hand presented in front of the open palm of the other.](https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cpss/files/2019/08/Sport-Respects-Your-Rights-banner.jpg)
![A group shot of the Sports Respects Your Rights Youth Team](https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cpss/files/2019/08/Youth-Team.jpg)
The youth-led campaigns were celebrated at a conference in Vienna and are also captured in a project booklet.
Sport Respects Your Rights supported Europeans, aged 16 to 22, to develop self-confident behaviour against sexualised violence and harassment in sports. Young sportswomen and sportsmen were given the platform to develop their own youth-led campaigns through which they raised awareness amongst peers, in their own sport environment.
Our campaign in the UK – initiated by a group of young people from rugby league – was a social media campaign using a simple hand-signal to highlight the Council of Europe’s finding that:
“Available data suggest that about 1 in 5 children in Europe are victims of some form of sexual violence. It is estimated that in 70% to 85% of cases, the abuser is somebody the child knows and trusts.”
This campaign – #STOP1in5 – had fantastic support from the rugby league community and beyond:
![An individual performing the "one-in-five" hand gesture, with the index finger of one hand presented in front of the open palm of the other.](https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cpss/files/2019/08/1-in-5.jpg)
![A group of staff from the NSPCC National Training Centre, wearing t-shirts with the campaign's "Stop 1 in 5" slogan.](https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cpss/files/2019/08/NSPCC.jpg)
![An individual performing the "one-in-five" hand gesture, with the index finger of one hand presented in front of the open palm of the other.](https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cpss/files/2019/08/stop1in5-01.jpg)
![A group of people performing the "one-in-five" hand gesture, with the index finger of one hand presented in front of the open palm of the other.](https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cpss/files/2019/08/stop1in5-02.jpg)
![A rugby player performing the "one-in-five" hand gesture, with the index finger of one hand presented in front of the open palm of the other.](https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cpss/files/2019/08/stop1in5-06.jpg)
![An individual performing the "one-in-five" hand gesture, with the index finger of one hand presented in front of the open palm of the other.](https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cpss/files/2019/08/stop1in5-07.jpg)
![Two people including a professional rugby player performing the "one-in-five" hand gesture, with the index finger of one hand presented in front of the open palm of the other.](https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cpss/files/2019/08/stop1in5-10.jpg)
![Johnny Vegas performing the "one-in-five" hand gesture, with the index finger of one hand presented in front of the open palm of the other.](https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cpss/files/2019/08/stop1in5-12.jpg)
The hand-signal became a symbol of the project throughout Europe and was adopted in other countries such as the Netherlands. A video of the campaign was also produced by Jamie Elkaleh who was responsible for developing the hand-signal:
Hartill, M. and Kainz, A. (2014) ‘Sport respects your rights: Empowering young Europeans in sport for a culture of respect and integrity against sexualised violence and gender harassment’, in D. Rhind & C. Brackenridge (eds.) Researching and enhancing athlete welfare: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of the Brunel International Research Network for Athlete Welfare (BIRNAW) 2013. Brunel University Press, e-book, pp. 62-66. ISBN 978-1-908549-12-9