A/HRC/RES/54/25
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 October 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fourth session
11 September–13 October 2023
Agenda item 9
Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
forms of intolerance: follow-up to and implementation of
the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 12 October 2023
54/25.
A world of sports free from racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia
and related intolerance
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and the Durban
Declaration and Programme of Action,
Acknowledging that, in paragraph 218 of the Durban Declaration and Programme of
Action, the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and
Related Intolerance urged States, in cooperation with intergovernmental organizations, the
International Olympic Committee and international and regional sports federations to
intensify the fight against racism in sport by, among other things, educating the youth of the
world through sport practised without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit,
which requires human understanding, tolerance, fair play and solidarity,
Acknowledging also that the Durban Review Conference, in paragraph 128 of its
outcome document, urged all international sporting bodies to promote, through their national,
regional and international federations, a world of sports free from racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,
Recalling the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech, launched
by the Secretary-General in response to the alarming trend of rising hate speech around the
world, on 18 June 2019,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 76/13 of 2 December 2021, in which the
Assembly reiterated its support for the independence and autonomy of sport and the mission
of the International Olympic Committee in leading the Olympic movement and of the
International Paralympic Committee in leading the Paralympic movement, and recognized
the unifying and conciliatory nature of the Olympic Games and major international sport
events, and that such events are organized in the spirit of peace, mutual understanding,
friendship, tolerance and the inadmissibility of discrimination of any kind; and resolution
77/27 of 1 December 2022, in which the Assembly recognized that sports, the arts and
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