RT Journal Article
T1 The effective application of international human rights law standards to the sporting domain: Should UN monitoring bodies take central stage?
A1 Pérez González, María Carmen
AB This work aims to reflect on the role that UN human rights monitoring bodies—both charter and treaty based—could playin tackling human rights violations of athletes rights occurred in the sporting domain. While recognizing the autonomy ofsports associations in the application of their own lex sportiva, the author maintains that the perspective and concrete recommendationsprovided by UN human rights mechanisms could help (i) raise human rights standards applied by sportingassociations and (ii) more effectively combat discriminatory and other harmful or unfair practices in sport. Thus, the purposeof the analysis is twofold. First, the work will examine the reasons behind the absence of a significant UN human rightsmechanisms/bodies practice so far. Secondly, it will support that autonomy of sport should not imply that athletes could beprevented from having access to these mechanisms seeking concrete recommendations regarding changes in situations ofdiscrimination or application of such harmful or unfair practices. While identifying certain obstacles to individual access, thework advocates for a more decisive action of these mechanisms in this regard. In particular, through Committees’ GeneralRecommendations and Concluding Observations, on the one hand, and special procedures of the Human Rights Council’spronouncements, on the other.
PB Springer
SN 2213-5154
YR 2022
FD 2022-02-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34720
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34720
LA eng
NO 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.
NO Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature.
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