A/RES/60/9 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 17 January 2006 Sixtieth session Agenda item 48 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 November 2005 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/60/L.7 and Add.1)] 60/9. Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 58/5 of 3 November 2003 and 59/10 of 27 October 2004, and its decision to proclaim 2005 the International Year for Sport and Physical Education, as a means to promote education, health, development and peace, Recalling its resolution 60/1 of 16 September 2005, in which it underlined that sport could foster peace and development and could contribute to an atmosphere of tolerance and understanding, Acknowledging the major role of the United Nations, its funds and programmes, the United Nations Development Programme, 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, 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, Considering the contribution of sport and physical education towards achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained _______________ 1 2 05-48808 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531. Resolution S-27/2, annex.