A/HRC/30/50 88. The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee encourages States to: (a) Strengthen existing legislation on the promotion and development of sport and through sport; (b) Adopt specific legislation on the prohibition of discrimination on all grounds, including race, colour, sex, gender, sexual orientation, language, origin or religion; doping; sexual exploitation; sexual harassment; and abuse in sport; (c) Continue and increase efforts at all levels to combat sexual exploitation, including of children, at major sporting events, and prevent any human rights violations related to sport; (d) Provide access to sport at the national level, regardless of gender, race, colour, sex, sexual orientation, language, origin, religion or social status; (e) Guarantee constant safeguards against extreme nationalist sentiment; violence in sport; unlawful influence on decision-making during competitions and other sporting events; and the discrediting of or undermining confidence in the apolitical and autonomous nature of sport and sporting federations. B. Programme support 89. The Advisory Committee invites States and national and international organizations, including sporting organizations, to: (a) Use coherent, sustainable and integrated sporting strategies and programmes to advance human rights, peace, development, diversity, tolerance, fairness, mutual respect, human understanding, dialogue, reconciliation, the spirit of competition and gender equality, and to combat discrimination, racism, social exclusion and marginalization; (b) Develop sporting and leisure programmes, highlighting the importance of ethical and moral values and raising awareness and understanding of human rights and the Olympic ideal as a means to advance the cause of peace, promote development and combat all forms of discrimination; (c) Reflect on the design of models for cooperation with the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee and other relevant stakeholders to use sport as a tool to promote peace, dialogue and reconciliation in areas of conflict or disturbance, in particular, during and beyond the period of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, in particular by observing the Olympic Truce; (d) Consider elaborating a framework for “sport and human rights”, covering, inter alia, mega sporting events, by drawing on the experience of the business and human rights framework; (e) Develop special programmes to provide more opportunities for persons with disabilities to contribute to the expansion of mass sporting activities, at the grassroots level, to encourage high performance in sporting events, to engage more persons, including children and young persons, women and girls and elderly persons, in sport and to facilitate access and a barrier-free environment with accessibility for all; (f) Contribute to the inclusion of persons with disabilities by showcasing their abilities and strengthening their role and rights in society; (g) Include meaningful provisions in current sporting programmes providing for the use of existing and the creation of new alliances between civil 19

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