A/HRC/30/50 11. It is important to implement the right to play sport, beyond politics and with full respect for the human rights not only of athletes, but also all those directly or indirectly affected by sporting activities or events, thereby seeking to create a better world for all through sport, physical activity and play. 12. The cohesion and neutrality of the sporting movement are important factors for achieving the Olympic ideal and values. Sporting events should not be used to demonstrate political protests or boycotts as measures of political pressure. In this regard, promoting the ideals of the Olympic Truce in advance of the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games, and recognizing the importance of constructive partnerships with the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee, the International Olympic Truce Centre, hosts of the Games, international sporting federations, the United Nations and State or non-State stakeholders in supporting the implementation of resolutions on the Olympic Truce, becomes promising. 13. The observations below provide an overview, analysis and assessment of the main areas where the continuing integration of a human rights-based approach into the practice of sport and the implementation of the Olympic ideal could potentially be most beneficial or fruitful in terms of promoting and strengthening universal respect for human rights for all. B. Legal and social framework 14. As highlighted above, sport is an important means to promote and strengthen universal respect for human rights. It can and should be used to combat all forms of discrimination and more generally social exclusion, violence, inequality, racism and xenophobia. There is a need to ensure that sport and sporting activities and initiatives do not lead to such violations of human rights as forced evictions or child or labour exploitation, or violations of economic, social and cultural, or civil and political human rights. Clearly, sport as a form of human activity should be construed and practised under general human rights provisions and specific conventions, with the full gamut of human rights norms and standards, deriving from international human rights treaties and customary law, governing any sport, sporting activity or event, big or small. 15. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is complemented in this regard by different relevant United Nations basic guiding documents and resolutions, such as General Assembly resolution 58/5, by which the Assembly decided to proclaim 2005 the International Year for Sport and Physical Education, to strengthen sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace.4 The General Assembly recognized the potential of sport to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, noting that sport has the potential, as declared in the 2005 World Summit Outcome, to foster peace and development and to contribute to an atmosphere of tolerance and understanding, and reaffirming that sport is a tool for education that can promote cooperation, solidarity, social inclusion and health at the local, national and international levels, as declared in the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals. Moreover, numerous United Nations resolutions and reports appeal for the advancement of peace, development, diversity, tolerance, fairness, mutual respect, human understanding, dialogue, reconciliation, competition spirit, gender equality and the combating of discrimination, racism, social exclusion and marginalization. Member States have been requested to create 4 Other relevant General Assembly resolutions include 69/6, 67/17, 59/10, 60/1, 60/9, 61/10, 62/271, 63/135and 65/4. 5