A/HRC/32/33 most effective for States to create independent complaints and monitoring mechanisms, potentially using existing human rights institutions, that people can utilize in the event of an alleged breach of their right to health in the sporting context. These could allow for redress and remedy through alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, such as mediation and arbitration. However, this should not preclude the referral of serious violations to national courts, especially allegations of criminal activity, which must be treated as criminal activity as in any other setting. Fulfil 25. States should take action to ensure that sufficient resources and infrastructure are devoted to enabling people to access and participate in sport and physical activity, as part of a broader strategy to encourage the adoption of healthy lifestyles. Three primary steps must be taken by States in this regard. Firstly, States should immediately include the facilitation and promotion of physical activity and healthy lifestyles in national planning, if this has not already been done. Secondly, quality physical education programmes, including in school and health-care settings, should be established (or updated) in accordance with human rights standards. Finally, progressive implementation, expansion and/or improvement of goods, facilities, services and information provision relevant to sport and healthy lifestyles should be undertaken, subject to resource constraints. 26. The incorporation of physical activity and healthy lifestyles into existing national health plans, or the development of such a plan, should be a foremost priority of States under the right to health, as a core obligation that is not subject to the principle of progressive realization, alongside non-discrimination. The Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health encourages States to build on existing national strategies and action plans concerning aspects of diet, nutrition and physical activity, and to create a national coordinating mechanism that addresses diet and physical activity within a comprehensive plan for preventing non-communicable diseases and promoting health.24 However, in many countries, there is alarmingly little planning: WHO has noted a paucity of national physical activity guidelines in low- and middle-income countries, and has confirmed that the public health significance of physical activity warrants the development of such guidelines.25 Such guidelines must be developed in reference to prevailing evidence and good practices in the region concerned. 27. Multisectoral collaboration can be a successful means of achieving national physical activity goals; for this, communication and cooperation between different parts of the government is vital. Some States have achieved multisectoral collaboration through formal cooperation agreements between relevant ministries; for example, Greece reports using a “cooperation protocol” between the ministries concerned in order to implement common physical activity interventions in schools, the workplace and public places. What is appropriate will vary according to national circumstances, but some framework or mechanism must be established in order to ensure that the collaboration occurs. 28. The importance of multisectoral collaboration is reflected in the Helsinki Statement on Health in All Policies, and in the 2011 Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases wherein the General Assembly encouraged implementation of the Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health through the introduction of policies and actions aimed at promoting healthy diets and increasing physical activity in the entire population, in all aspects of daily living. The General Assembly also noted that implementation of the Global 24 25 8 WHO, Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health. WHO, Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health.

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