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
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