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Respect for All toolbox, an initiative undertaken by UNESCO to develop
educational material that promotes non-discrimination and inclusion.
7.
On 20 March, the Special Rapporteur held an exchange of views with
representatives of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance of the
Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, during which themes of common interest
and possible areas of future cooperation were discussed.
8.
On 16 June, the Special Rapporteur participated as a keynote speaker in a
roundtable on racial/ethnic issues in police stop-and-search operations, organized in
Berlin by the German Anti-Discrimination Agency as part of its activities for the
Year against Racism, 2014.
9.
The Special Rapporteur convened a side event on racism on the Internet and
social media on the occasion of the presentation of his report to the Human Rights
Council in Geneva on 26 June, with the participation of the Executive Secretary of
the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, the Vice Chair of the
Federal Commission against Racism of Switzerland and a representative of the
Association for Progressive Communications.
III. Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance in sports
A.
Context
10. The General Assembly, in its resolution 58/160, requested the Special
Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and
related intolerance to pay special attention to the increasing frequency of incidents
of racism at various sporting events. Pursuant to that request, the former mandate
holders examined the issue of racism in sports and, in their reports to the General
Assembly, the Commission of Human Rights and the Huma n Rights Council,
described the evolution of racist manifestations, racial hatred, xenophobia, racial
discrimination and related intolerance in sports.
11. In his annual report to the General Assembly in 2003, the former Special
Rapporteur Doudou Diène, warned about the recent increase of racist and xenophobic
remarks coming from the stands at sporting events (see A/58/313, para. 26). Such
incidents had been most common in European football, where players of Afric an
origin were greeted by spectators with monkey calls and racist insults, and bananas
thrown in the stadium. Similar incidents had also been reported in tennis matches of
major league tournaments (see A/58/313, paras. 27 and 28).
12. In his report to the General Assembly in 2004, the Special Rapporteur
reiterated his earlier concerns (see A/59/329, sect. III.C). In 2005, he submitted two
reports in which he addressed the issue of racism in sports: his annual report to the
General Assembly (A/60/283, sect. III.B) and his annual report to the Commission
on Human Rights (E/CN.4/2005/18, para. 48 (g)). In 2006, the Special Rapporteur
again addressed the issue in his reports to the General Assembly (see A/61/335,
paras. 37-40) and the Commission on Human Rights (E/CN.4/2006/16, sect. II.E).
In 2007, he noted with concern that, in spite of the efforts made, racist violence in
stadiums, more than ever, continued to be a serious phenomenon ( A/HRC/4/19,
para. 53); he reiterated the need to tie sanctions and penalties for all manifestations
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