The effective application of international human rights law standards to the sporting domain: Should UN monitoring bodies take central stage?

Pérez González, María Carmen

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The effective application of international human rights law standards to the sporting domain: Should UN monitoring bodies take central stage?

dc.affiliation.area	UC3M. Área de Derecho Internacional Público	es
dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Derecho Internacional Público, Eclesiástico y Filosofía del Derecho	es
dc.contributor.author	Pérez González, María Carmen
dc.date.accessioned	2022-05-06T13:47:13Z
dc.date.available	2022-05-06T13:47:13Z
dc.date.issued	2022-02-10
dc.description.abstract	This work aims to reflect on the role that UN human rights monitoring bodies—both charter and treaty based—could play in tackling human rights violations of athletes rights occurred in the sporting domain. While recognizing the autonomy of sports associations in the application of their own lex sportiva, the author maintains that the perspective and concrete recommendations provided by UN human rights mechanisms could help (i) raise human rights standards applied by sporting associations and (ii) more effectively combat discriminatory and other harmful or unfair practices in sport. Thus, the purpose of the analysis is twofold. First, the work will examine the reasons behind the absence of a significant UN human rights mechanisms/bodies practice so far. Secondly, it will support that autonomy of sport should not imply that athletes could be prevented from having access to these mechanisms seeking concrete recommendations regarding changes in situations of discrimination or application of such harmful or unfair practices. While identifying certain obstacles to individual access, the work advocates for a more decisive action of these mechanisms in this regard. In particular, through Committees’ General Recommendations and Concluding Observations, on the one hand, and special procedures of the Human Rights Council’s pronouncements, on the other.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	An earlier version of this article was presented at the IJSL Special Issue on Remedy Workshop organized by the Centre for Sport and Human Rights that took place online on 2 and 3 June 2021. I would like to thank Antoine Duval and Daniela Heerdt and the rest participants for their pertinent and enriching comments. I would also like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their careful reading of the paper and their kind and thoughtful comments.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature.	en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Pérez González, C.(2022). The effective application of international human rights law standards to the sporting domain: Should UN monitoring bodies take central stage?. The International Sports Law Journal	es
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1007/s40318-021-00209-8
dc.identifier.issn	2213-5154
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage	1	es
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage	13	es
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	International Sports Law Journal	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34720
dc.identifier.uxxi	AR/0000030048
dc.language.iso	eng	es
dc.publisher	Springer	es
dc.relation.projectID	AT-2022	es
dc.rights	Atribución 3.0 España	*
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/	*
dc.subject.eciencia	Derecho	es
dc.subject.other	International human rights law standards	en
dc.subject.other	UN human rights monitoring bodies	en
dc.subject.other	Human right to sport	en
dc.subject.other	Human rights violations of athletes	en
dc.subject.other	Autonomy of sport	en
dc.subject.other	Lex sportiva	en
dc.title	The effective application of international human rights law standards to the sporting domain: Should UN monitoring bodies take central stage?	en
dc.type	research article	*
dc.type.hasVersion	VoR	*
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