Welcome to the HELP course on Human Rights in Sports!
Nowadays sport has achieved a significant level of impact on people: on their personal, social, and professional life. The question of sport and human rights is steadily becoming a key item on the agenda of international sports policy but also of the sports movement. This reflects the universal nature of human rights, the major role that sport plays in the lives of a large part of the world’s population.
States have the duty to protect, promote and implement human rights. Within their jurisdiction, member states have a duty to protect individuals against human rights abuses by third parties, including sport organisations.
As the popularity of sport grow, more sport related legal disputes and human rights related issues appear, some of them were brought to the European Court of Human Rights.
The HELP Course on Human Rights in Sport will help legal professionals and sports experts to better understand and apply the international / European law standards in the field of human rights in sport.
Upon request of national authorities, the course can be translated into other languages and adapted to the national legal order and context.
The course was finalized in April 2019.
It has 9 modules:
• Introduction
• Sports arbitration and litigation – Fair trial (Art. 6 of European Convention on Human Rights - the ECHR)
• Privacy (Art. 8 of the ECHR)
• Life and security (Art. 2, 3 and 4 of the ECHR)
• Liberty, Freedom of Expression and Assembly (Art. 5, 10 and 11 of the ECHR)
• Prohibition of discrimination
• Anti-doping and human rights
• Sports manipulation and human rights
• Safety and security of sport events and human rights
The course has been developed jointly by the Council of Europe (CoE) Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) Programme and the CoE Children’s Rights and Sport Values Department (www.coe.int/sport), with the collaboration of MGIMO University (http://english.mgimo.ru).
The course has been further updated in 2022 by the CoE Sport Values Department.
Please read the course brief here.
Please click on one of the language codes below to launch the course in your preferred language
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