A/HRC/44/26 health status, disability, maternity/parental status or gender/gender identity or sexual orientation, and create equality-affirming programmes and policies by: (a) Ensuring the inclusion of and cooperation with organizations led by intersex persons in efforts to include more and a greater diversity of women and girls’ sport; (b) Carrying out, in conjunction with athletes and their associations, public education campaigns to counter gender-stereotyped and racist attitudes and using all appropriate measures to address negative and stereotypical portrayals of women and girl athletes in the media, paying particular attention to pervasive attitudes to appropriate norms of femininity. 60. States and sporting bodies should ensure that women and girls, and their representative organizations, including athletes’ associations and commissions, are consulted on laws and policies, particularly those that have an impact on their rights. 61. Sporting bodies should commit themselves to protecting and respecting internationally recognized human rights. They should meet their responsibilities to protect rights and minimize harms to rights by adopting human rights policies that apply to athletes, events and competitions (from bidding processes to game time), fans, journalists and others. They should also commit themselves to reviewing and revising their policies, including eligibility regulations. This includes: (a) Putting in place transparent monitoring processes to assess negative impacts on rights as a step towards meeting their responsibilities; (b) Establishing practices of due diligence in tracking and responding to reports of discrimination and abuse; (c) Ensuring that athletes have access to all relevant information on their rights and on the steps that can be taken to ensure their rights, expose abuse and hold those responsible to account. 62. Sport governing bodies should protect athletes’ right to remedy by not restricting their access to justice mechanisms. Moreover, they should act to ensure effective forms of redress that conform with international human rights law and that are equally accessible to all athletes regardless of resources and geographic location. 63. Sport governing bodies should ensure that the heightened protections for athletes under the age of 18 provided by the international framework for child rights are in place in sport governing bodies policies, rules and regulations. 64. Sport governing bodies should review, revise and revoke eligibility rules and regulations that have negative effects on athletes’ rights, including those addressing athletes with intersex variations. 65. The Human Rights Council should consider remaining apprised of these issues, and, in particular, consider a review of the interactions between private and public law in sports, with due regard for the independence of sporting bodies and the pre-eminent duty of States to respect, protect and fulfil rights. 15