A/HRC/62/55 B. Recommendations 61. States should: (a) Collect racially and ethnically disaggregated data on racism within sports, ensuring that research and data collection efforts include systemic and structural manifestations of racism, as well as intersecting forms of discrimination; (b) Ensure that all data-collection activities are conducted in line with international human rights law provisions and relevant guidance, including the guidance issued by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights entitled “Disaggregated data to advance the human rights of people of African descent: progress and challenges” and “A human rights-based approach to data: leaving no one behind in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”; (c) Invest in sports infrastructure, programmes and coaching for children and young people, ensuring equitable access to these resources among those from marginalized racial and ethnic groups, including through targeted measures, such as community-based funds. Attention should be paid to identifying and addressing inequities in access to sports with high associated costs; (d) Take comprehensive steps to prevent, address and remedy violent conflict, given its relationship with racial discrimination and its detrimental impact on the right to participate in cultural life, including sport. In her report to the General Assembly on multidimensional interconnections between conflict and racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia, the Special Rapporteur outlines a series of recommendations in this regard that she urges States to implement effectively;61 (e) Protect sports infrastructure and ensure the freedom of movement and safety of athletes in situations of conflict and occupation, in line with international human rights and humanitarian law; (f) Refrain from endorsing or implementing any eligibility regulations that lead to racial and intersecting forms of discrimination; (g) Engage with sports governance bodies to ensure that all eligibility regulations are developed through transparent, participatory processes, which include meaningful consultation with persons from marginalized racial and ethnic groups and persons with experiences of intersectional discrimination. All eligibility regulations should remain subject to ongoing review in the light of evolving evidence and human rights standards; (h) Engage with sports governance bodies on effective equity, diversity and inclusion measures to ensure racial and ethnic representation with regard to the different athletic playing positions, as well as in roles in coaching, management and governance bodies; (i) Ensure that incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence is prohibited and, in the most serious cases, criminalized within national legal frameworks in a manner that is consistent with international human rights norms and standards, including the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Rabat Plan of Action; (j) Effectively implement article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination to address the corrosive impact that racial hatred and hate speech have on sport, promote the positive potential of sport to act as a force against racism, and work with sports governance bodies and technology companies to realize this potential; (k) Significantly invest, in partnership with sports governance bodies and technology companies, in proactive, evidence-based non-legal measures, such as 61 16 A/80/496, para. 52. GE.26-07112