United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/59/10
Distr.: General
8 December 2004
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 47
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 27 October 2004
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/59/L.9 and Add.1)]
59/10.
Sport as a means to promote education, health,
development and peace
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 58/5 of 3 November 2003 and its decision to proclaim
2005 the International Year for Sport and Physical Education, as a means to promote
education, health, development and peace,
Considering the role of sport and physical education as a means to promote
education, health, development and peace,
Acknowledging the major role of the United Nations, its funds and
programmes and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization and other specialized agencies, in promoting human development
through sport and physical education, through its country programmes,
Noting that sport and physical education in many countries face increasing
marginalization within education systems even though they are a major tool not only
for health and physical development but also for acquiring values necessary for
social cohesion and intercultural dialogue,
Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child 1 and the outcome
document of the special session of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A
world fit for children”, 2 stressing that education shall be directed to the development
of children’s personality, talents and mental and physical abilities to their fullest
potential,
Acknowledging with concern the dangers faced by sportsmen and
sportswomen, in particular young athletes, including child labour, violence, doping,
early specialization, over-training and exploitative forms of commercialization, as
well as less visible threats and deprivations, such as the premature severance of
family bonds and the loss of sporting, social and cultural ties,
Recognizing the need for greater coordination of efforts at the international
level to facilitate a more effective fight against doping, and noting in this regard the
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Resolution S-27/2, annex.