Sports and healthy lifestyles as contributing factors to the right to health 2016, para. 65
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The obligation to respect the right to health requires effort in order to combat entrenched discrimination against women in the field of sport and physical activity. Both at the professional and the amateur levels, there remains a worrying gender differential in participation in sport.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Equality & Inclusion
Health
Person(s) affected
Women
Year
2016
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Health, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/32/33, para. 65.