A/HRC/RES/18/23
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 October 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Eighteenth session
Agenda item 8
Follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration
and Programme of Action
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council*
18/23
Promoting awareness, understanding and the application of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through sport
and the Olympic ideal
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and relevant international human rights
instruments,
Recognizing the potential of sport as a universal language that contributes to
educating people on the values of respect, diversity, tolerance and fairness and as a means
to combat all forms of discrimination and promote an inclusive society,
Recognizing also that sport and major sporting events can be used to promote
awareness, understanding and the application of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights,
Recognizing further the potential of sport and major sporting events in contributing
to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, and noting that, as declared at
the 2005 World Summit, sport has the potential to foster peace and development and to
contribute to an atmosphere of tolerance and understanding among peoples and nations,
Recognizing the contribution of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on
Sport for Development and Peace and the United Nations Office on Sport for Development
and Peace to identify synergy and complimentarity between sport and the work of the
United Nations to promote the values of diversity, tolerance and fairness and as a means to
combat all forms of discrimination,
*
GE.11- 16755
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its eighteenth session (A/HRC/18/2), chap. I.