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(i)
Guarantee that human rights are a core component of bidding for the
organization of major sporting events and that impact assessments are undertaken;
(j)
As part of prevention efforts, ensure that States hosting major sporting
events effectively engage with children and provide space for their meaningful
participation;
(k)
Throughout the life cycle of major sporting events, mitigate any impact
on child rights due to, for example, the building of new infrastructure, and provide
effective reporting mechanisms for cases of violations;
(l)
In the context of major sporting events, adopt extraterritorial legislation
that enables the prosecution of travelling offenders in particular;
(m) Support and engage in data-gathering efforts on the extent of sale and
sexual exploitation of children in the context of sports to ensure that responses are based
on hard evidence;
(n)
Launch and support awareness-raising campaigns on safe sports and on
how to prevent child rights violations in the practice of sports.
At the international level
135.
The Special Rapporteur calls upon sports organizations to:
(a)
Consider revising codes of conduct and ethics to ensure a systematic
approach to child rights violations and the use of standard terminology;
(b)
Use and refer to the Terminology Guidelines for the Protection of
Children from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse as a seminal document providing
clear standard terminology;
(c)
Set up or implement independent reporting mechanisms for cases of sale
and sexual exploitation that provide child-friendly support to children;
(d)
Ensure that theses reporting mechanisms are developed and work in
tandem with existing national child protection frameworks, as well as explicitly
enshrine the reporting obligations of all individuals falling under the authority of sports
institutions;
(e)
Ensure that the principles of autonomy and specificity at the heart of all
sports organizations are never used or invoked to dispense with their responsibility to
respect human rights and, in particular, child rights;
(f)
Implement or adopt gender equality policies in order to reach gender
parity in the leadership of sport organizations;
(g)
Provide comprehensive, systematic training to all individuals falling
under the authority of sports institutions on child rights, internal codes of conduct or
ethics and policy documents;
(h)
Coupled with comprehensive training of all individuals falling under the
authority of sports institutions, enforce systematic background checks of anyone
working with children;
(i)
Create or implement child participation outlets for children active in
sports emphasizing, in particular, awareness-raising regarding the practice of safe
sports and consultation with respect to reporting mechanisms, as well as reparations;
(j)
Ensure that in the context of major sporting events, there is no lobbying
to modify or weaken existing child protection laws and measures to facilitate the
organization of such events;
(k)
Systematically include human rights as a criterion in bidding processes
for the organization of major sporting events and ensure that human rights due
diligence processes are undertaken;
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