A/HRC/62/55 counter-speech, public awareness campaigns, education, community projects and steps to build societal support for pluralism, to address racist hate speech in sport, including incitement to discrimination, hostility and violence. The hosting of sporting events should be considered an important opportunity to implement these non-legal measures; (l) Uphold the right to freedom of expression and opinion in all efforts to prevent and address racial hatred and racist hate speech in sports, ensuring that any restriction on these rights meets the criteria of legality, necessity, proportionality and legitimacy; (m) Work in partnership with sports governance bodies to ensure that human rights impact assessments are undertaken in preparation for the hosting of sporting events and that racial discrimination standards are integrated into such analyses; (n) Ensure that all public security operations relating to the hosting of sporting events, including any utilization of artificial intelligence, uphold international human rights law standards fully; (o) Ensure effective access to remedy for all those who have experienced manifestations of racism in sport. This should include competent State bodies undertaking effective investigation and prosecution in relevant cases, as well as broader work with sports governance bodies and technology companies to uphold the right to effective remedy. 62. Sports governance bodies and related actors should: (a) Continue and expand efforts to support access to sports among children and young people, ensure that such programmes are effectively targeted and that they address any inequities in access to sport experienced by children and young people from marginalized racial and ethnic groups, and collect racially and ethnically disaggregated data on barriers to accessing sport in order to adequately target such measures and monitor their effectiveness; (b) Refrain from developing or implementing any eligibility regulations that lead to racial and intersecting forms of discrimination; (c) Develop eligibility regulations through transparent, participatory processes that include meaningful consultation with persons from marginalized racial and ethnic groups and persons with experiences of intersectional discrimination, and ensure that such regulations are subject to ongoing review, considering evolving evidence and human rights standards; (d) Take proactive steps to identify barriers to participation among racialized athletes and to eliminate racial stereotyping in player positioning, scouting and career progression pathways; (e) Develop and effectively implement effective diversity, equity and inclusion measures to ensure that persons from racialized groups are adequately represented in all roles in sports governance bodies, including senior leadership positions. The implementation of such measures should be monitored through the collection of racially and ethnically disaggregated data; (f) Work with States and social media companies to take decisive and proportionate action when racist incidents take place in the context of sporting events; (g) Work in partnership with States and technology companies to develop and implement proactive, evidence-based non-legal measures to prevent racism; (h) Ensure that human rights impact assessments are consistently undertaken before decisions are made about the hosting of sporting events, including major international competitions, and that the consideration of racial discrimination is central to such analysis; (i) Develop and implement comprehensive anti-racism training and awareness-raising initiatives for all staff; GE.26-07112 17