50 Years Relationship Between the Kingdom of Thailand and Hungary
The kingdom of Thailand and Hungary are commemorating their 50-year-long diplomatic relationship with two splendid gala events that highlight both sports and culture exchnage. Hungary hosted a 3 day muaythai festival as part of the Hungarian “Sport Selector” featuring a strong demonstration team of 15 members who showcased the cultural and athletic facets of muaythai. Meanwhile […]
Muaythai Takes Center Stage at UTS Festival
Muaythai, which is the national sport of Thailand and an IOC recognized sport under the world governing body, IFMA, took center stage at day 5 at the United Through Sports Youth Festival. Over 400 youth ambassadors participated in the cultural exchange, conducted by 4 of the leading Thai Masters of IFMA. NSDF Fund Manager, Supranee […]
Empowering youth champions of life: Partnering with the sport sector to build youth and community resilience to violence and crime
Empowering youth champions of life: Partnering with the sport sector to build youth and community resilience to violence and crime 01 June 2021 – While preventing crime is often considered the responsibility of law enforcement, for efforts to succeed a much more comprehensive approach is required. This includes building strong partnerships with a wide diversity […]
AIMS President Speaks at UNODC Online Event
The AIMS President spoke on crime prevention through sports as part of its efforts to support the implementation of the Doha Declaration. The United Nations office on drugs and crime launched a global youth crime prevention initiative on the power of sports to prevent crime and to effectively build resilience of at-risk youths. The CCPCJ invited […]
IWGA Interview of the Month: CEO Joachim Gossow
Busy days not only for IWGA: CEO Joachim Gossow, in the year before The World Games 2022 in Birmingham, Alabama, is set to pave the way for an outstanding event. 2021 is the year before The World Games in Birmingham, Alabama. You have already experienced that once in 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic made the […]
AIMS Joins Public Hearing
A very special event took place in Bangkok organised by the national reform committee on Culture, Sports labour and Human resources. It was attended by many important speakers, chaired by Prof Dr Nithi Mahanon and certainly IOC member and executive board member of the national committee of Thailand KHUNYING Patama Leesawadtrakul. Khunying Patama made a […]
The Youth Giving us Hope and More Reasons to Smile
The Youth Giving us Hope and More Reasons to Smile Over the last 4 weeks, IFMA started a unifying initiative, #MuaythaiConnects, to bring the IFMA Youth even closer together in line with IFMA’s policy to do our best to contribute towards the best possible future […]
IFMA & UTS PRESENTS The #MuaythaiConnects 2020 Social & Active Challenge
Sport Community, Where do we stand currently? We are all affected by this pandemic. We know that the Corona virus does not acknowledge borders, religion or nationalities. Many people across the world have lost loved ones, many have contracted the virus, whilst others are living in quarantine or under daily life altering restrictions. However, this virus is already […]
Right To Play, UTS and IFMA visit to Rohinga Refugee Camp
Over 30 years ago, countless Rohinga families fled from violent human rights abuse and conflict within Myanmar (Burma) and have been “temporarily” living in nine refugee camps within the Tak Province along the western border of Thailand. With over 120,000 refugees in this region, they contribute to the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world. […]
United for Olympic Day 2018, Bangkok, Thailand
The Olympic run in Thailand was a huge success with over 12,000 participants coming together in the early hours of the 24th of June to do a five or ten kilometre run. IFMA and United Through Sport certainly were there in full force to not only participate but also take the opportunity for important meetings […]