—to protect their own confidentiality.
The reality is that all these abuses—the ones we've been hearing about this afternoon and many others—are covered up in NDAs. Let's be clear: NDAs are not for the benefit of victims, although that is a prevalent myth. They are to protect the abuser and the organization. What is available for the victim is a one-sided confidentiality clause. Instead, victims have to promise to protect the party that abused them—the person, organization or both—in exchange for their own privacy.
There is literally no good reason to have non-disclosure agreements in sports abuses, or in any other cases of abuse, misconduct or discrimination. This is obviously what happened with Bob Birarda of Canada Soccer, and it is consistently the story we hear in the work we now do on the campaign.