World Basketball Day

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 11Sport for development and peace, published in 2022.

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2 topics

International Days Sports

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Emphasizes that sport, including sport for persons with disabilities, has an important role to play in the promotion of peace and development, respect for human rights, gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, in particular basketball, given its universal popularity;

Commends Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines for hosting the International Basketball Federation Basketball World Cup 2023, and encourages the relevant authorities to exert every effort to ensure that the Basketball World Cup 2023 will leave a lasting legacy for peace and development around the world;

Encourages all Member States to support sport, including sport for persons with disabilities, and its use as a tool to promote peace and development, including through the continued contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and dialogue among civilizations;

Encourages all relevant stakeholders to emphasize and advance the use of sport as a vehicle to foster sustainable development and, inter alia, strengthen education, including physical education, for children and young persons, including persons with disabilities, prevent disease, including non-communicable diseases, and drug abuse, promote physical and mental health, realize gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, realize the empowerment of young people, foster inclusion and well-being, promote healthy and active ageing, help to ensure the participation of everyone without discrimination of any kind, promote tolerance, mutual understanding and respect and facilitate social inclusion, conflict prevention and peacebuilding;

Encourages Member States to adopt best practices and means to promote the practice of sport and physical activities among all members of society, and in this regard welcomes initiatives to adopt dedicated education, health, youth and sport days, including specialized sport days, at the national and local levels, as a means to promote physical and mental health and well-being and cultivate a sport culture in society;

Decides to proclaim 21 December as World Basketball Day;

Invites all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system, in particular the Division for Inclusive Social Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, other international and regional organizations, the private sector and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, individuals and other relevant stakeholders to observe World Basketball Day in an appropriate manner and in accordance with national priorities, and to disseminate the advantages of basketball for all, including through educational and public awareness-raising activities;

Encourages everyone everywhere to play, watch, read, discuss or otherwise connect to the game, which will be a connection to each other everywhere;

Stresses that the cost of all activities that may arise from the implementation of the present resolution should be met from voluntary contributions;

Notes that World Basketball Day follows one day after, and furthers the spirit of, International Human Solidarity Day;

Requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the attention of all Member States, the organizations of the United Nations system and other relevant stakeholders for appropriate observance.

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