Promoting Awareness, Understanding and the Application of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Through Sport and the Olympic Ideal

A/HRC/RES/18/23View PDF

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A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 8 Follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, published in 2011.

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Conferences Human Rights Education Olympic Games Sports

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Decides to convene, within existing resources, at its nineteenth session, a high-level interactive panel discussion to highlight, examine and suggest ways in which sport and major sporting events, in particular the Olympic and Paralympic Games, can be used to promote awareness and understanding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the application of the principles enshrined therein;

Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to liaise with relevant special procedures, States and other stakeholders, including relevant United Nations bodies and agencies, with a view to ensuring their participation in the above-mentioned panel discussion;

Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a report on the outcome of the panel discussion in the form of a summary.

The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its eighteenth session (A/HRC/18/2), chap. I.

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