A/HRC/RES/24/1 1. Welcomes the high-level interactive panel discussion held at the nineteenth session of the Human Rights Council, which highlighted the ways how sport and major sporting events, in particular the Olympic and Paralympic Games, can be used to promote awareness and understanding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the application of the principles enshrined therein; 2. Takes note of the summary of the above-mentioned discussion prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights;1 3. Calls upon States to cooperate with the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee in their efforts to use sport as a tool to promote human rights, development, peace, dialogue and reconciliation during and beyond the period of the Olympic and Paralympic Games; 4. Encourages States to promote sport as a means to combat all forms of discrimination; 5. Requests the Advisory Committee to prepare a study on the possibilities of using sport and the Olympic ideal to promote human rights for all and to strengthen universal respect for them, bearing in mind both the value of relevant principles enshrined in the Olympic Charter and the value of good sporting example, to seek the views and inputs of States Members of the United Nations, international and regional organizations, national human rights institutions, civil society organizations and other relevant stakeholders in this regard, and to present a progress report thereon to the Human Rights Council before its twenty-seventh session; 6. Decides to continue consideration of this issue in accordance with its programme of work. 34th meeting 26 September 2013 [Adopted without a vote.] 1 A/HRC/20/11. 3