José Noronha Rodrigues; Sumanta Bhattacharya; Dora Cabete: Human Rights and Lex Sportiva: Sport for All

The main international instruments for the protection of the most basic human rights, of hard law or soft law, explicitly or implicitly address sport as a human right. However, it is a reality that persists in sports, namely, the systematic violation and discrimination on the basis of race, gender, culture, sexual orientation, religion, among others, in terms of access and development of sports competitions, in addition to racist acts perpetrated by athletes and spectators. It is critical to narrow the analysis in the fundamental principles underlying the Olympic Charter, the sustainable development goals, and the clash of lex sportive and national laws to point out the systematic human rights violations in sport contexts and in access to sport.