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Building a Peaceful and Better World Through Sport and the Olympic Ideal

A/RES/60/8View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A document of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 48aBuilding a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal, published in 2005.

What other versions does this mandate have?

15 versions · 1997–2025
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/8
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  • 2017A/RES/72/6Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic idealCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

iExtracted automatically from each entity’s budget submission.

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 topics
AthletesCooperation Between OrganizationsEducation for PeaceInternational OrganizationsInternational YearsItalyNon-Governmental OrganizationsOlympic GamesParticipantsPeacePersons with DisabilitiesPhysical EducationPublic OpinionSportsTurin (Italy)

What does this mandate say?

5 operative paragraphs
1
Urges Member States to observe, within the framework of the Charter of the United Nations, the Olympic Truce, individually or collectively, during the XX Olympic Winter Games, to be held in Turin, Italy, from 10 to 26 February 2006, and the following Paralympic Winter Games, to be held also in Turin, from 10 to 19 March 2006, by ensuring the safe passage and participation of athletes at the Games;
2
Welcomes the decision of the International Olympic Committee to mobilize international sports organizations and the National Olympic Committees of the Member States to undertake concrete actions at the local, national, regional and world levels to promote and strengthen a culture of peace based on the spirit of the Olympic Truce and to cooperate with the national committees of the International Year for Sport and Physical Education;
3
Requests the Secretary-General to promote the observance of the Olympic Truce among Member States, drawing the attention of world public opinion to the contribution such a truce would make to the promotion of international understanding, peace and goodwill, and to cooperate with the International Olympic Committee in the realization of this objective;
4
Calls upon Member States to cooperate with the International Olympic Committee and all concerned agencies and programmes of the United Nations in their efforts to use the Olympic Truce as an instrument to promote peace, during and beyond the Olympic Games period, and to implement projects using sport as a tool for development;
5
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-second session the sub-item entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal” and to consider this sub-item before the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, to be held in Beijing in 2008.

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