Centre for Sport and Human Rights’ Post

Today we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of #HumanRights 🎉. Over the last 75 days athletes from all around the world & across sport have come together to share what this important declaration means to them. Thanks to everyone who has signed for Team Human Rights! 📌 Find out more about #The75 Campaign in collaboration with the United Nations Human Rights here: https://lnkd.in/d2Wi85AV #TeamHumanRights #HumanRights75 #TogetherForBetter #The75 #Stand4HumanRights #DroitsHumains #DerechosHumanos #AthleteActivism

The Centre delivered a workshop for all 51 OECD - OCDE National Contact Points across the globe on sport and human rights. The focus was on the sport and human rights remedy landscape, the role that NCPs can play in this landscape, and how to adopt an Affected Person-centered approach when dealing with specific cases of human rights harms in the sport context. 📌 How can sports improve their responses to reports of abuse? The Centre's Roadmap to Remedy project provides knowledge, recommendations, and practical tools to raise the standard of access to remedy for abuse cases in sport. Get to know more 👉 https://lnkd.in/e8t3Agjq

How can sport improve its response to abuse? The Centre teamed up with experts and Affected Persons from different sports across the world to build long-term solutions. The result is our Roadmap to Remedy project, led by the the Centre's Special Advisor on Remedy, Kat Craig, and our Head of Research and Education, Dr Daniela Heerdt. Find out more about the Roadmap to Remedy and download Outputs one, two and three, which provide knowledge, recommendations, and practical tools for sport bodies and Affected Persons and their representatives to raise the standard of access to remedy for abuse cases in sport.  👉 https://lnkd.in/e8t3Agjq

Promoting human rights is a job for everyone and with #Euro2024 kicking off tonight it's a great time to download this guide and checklist developed by Football Supporters Europe and CSHR highlighting the #HumanRights aspects of travelling to international sporting events 👇 https://lnkd.in/eEt2Kf49

Congratulations on this achievement! It was a pleasure having Azeem Rafiq at our Sporting Chance Forum #SCF23, discussing the opportunities in sport to address racial inequality and the legacies of colonialism.  🎥 Full session 👉 https://bit.ly/3VEUW77

The Centre welcomed a group of students visiting from Syracuse University, who had the opportunity to meet our CEO, Mary V. Harvey - OLY, and engage in a discussion about the interlinkages between sport and human rights, the role of the Centre, and the growing importance of sport diplomacy. This meeting was convened with the support of Meg Marsan Rapelye, MSW, Public Diplomacy Officer at the Permanent Mission of the United States to the UN in Geneva.