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regard to access to and use of sport facilities and services, job opportunities and
career development:
112. The Working Group encourages States and relevant stakeholders to ensure
that women and girls can fully exercise their human rights in all spheres of public life
in line with the DDPA and the Outcome Document of the Durban Review Conference
and thereby promote their practice of sport for development and peace and as a
means to further combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance in sport;
113. The Working Group encourages States and relevant stakeholders to ensure the
equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by persons with
disabilities, including their full and active participation in sport;
114. The Working Group encourages States and relevant stakeholders to use the
potential of sport and mass sport events to educate the youth of the world and to
promote their inclusion through sport practices without racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance and in the Olympic spirit, which requires human
understanding, tolerance, fair play and solidarity;
115. The Working Group notes the important role of sport players, sport authorities
and other relevant authorities in contributing to awareness-raising campaigns for
preventing and combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance and reinforcing the message for the elimination of racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance;
116. The Working Group looks forward to further engagement and dialogue with
sporting bodies, including amateurs sporting bodies to share with the Working Group
measures taken in contributing to the fight against racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance at future sessions of the Working Group;
117. The Working Group invites sport sponsors to share with IGWG, at future
sessions, practices developed in combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia
and related intolerance, including possible voluntary ethics codes of conduct;
118. The Working Group invites the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights to make presentations from panellists available on
its website. It also invites the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights, in collaboration with other partners, to prepare a compilation of
experiences and best practices for combating racism through sport at international,
regional, national and local levels, in accordance with information received from
various stakeholders;
119. The Working Group also invites the High Commissioner to cooperate with the
Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace,
relevant parts of the United Nations, the International Olympic Committee, the
International Federation of Association Football and other relevant international,
regional and national sports associations and federations, as well as non-governmental
organizations and civil society, in the development of programmes to prevent and
eradicate racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance in sports
and to use sports as a tool to eliminate all forms of discrimination;
120. The Working Group encourages the High Commissioner, the Special Adviser
to the Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace and other relevant
parts of the United Nations to engage with relevant international sporting bodies to
discuss practical measures aimed at combating racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance in sport, such as the development and promotion
of codes of conduct against racism in sport and of international certificates for clubs
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