HELP course on Human Rights in Sports

This HELP course on Human Rights in Sports is part of a series of courses created by the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) aiming to support legal professionals and to enhance their capacities to effectively and coherently apply European fundamental rights standards at the national level. The complexity of the question in the field of sports and its increasing popularity leads to an increase of the number of sport-related legal disputes. Disputes are often of a general criminal, administrative or civil nature, with the added specificity of sport, including short deadlines and criminal groups extending wider than simply the athletes. These disputes are adjudicated by national courts as well as by special sport tribunals. The questions on the application of the procedural safeguards enshrined in Article 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) in such proceedings have been raised before the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR).The course has been developed jointly with the Children’s Rights and Sport Values Department of the Council of Europe, with the collaboration of MGIMO University. It aims at increasing the awareness of human rights and related legal issues in the field of sport among legal professionals and specialists involved into sport and at assisting legal professionals to apply the related domestic and international law standards in the field of human rights in sports in their daily work. The course is addressed to legal professionals (judges, prosecutors, lawyers). It consists of the following 9 substantive 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 HELP Programme, the Council of Europe’s Children’s Rights and Sport Values Department, Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation and MGIMO University. If you are interested in this course or another, you simply need to register in order to access the website resources. An explanatory document is available to make it easier for new persons to find their way around the site. 

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