Key NHRCK Activities
■ On-site monitoring of major competitions to prevent human rights
infringements
focus on preventing and checking human rights infringement acts. In March, It built a more robust
monitoring checklist, which was applied from May to October, to monitor human rights conditions
at national competitions in nine sports and the 102nd National Sports Festival.
In 2021, focus was placed on synthesizing and analyzing the results gathered over the past
Part 1 Introduction
The Commission monitored highly competitive national student sports competitions with a
years, and come up with improvement proposals. Through monitoring of sports competitions,
it was found that, despite institutional improvement efforts to promote human rights in sports,
institutional safeguards were still lacking, not enough consideration or care were given to athletes
and training facility for athletes. The Commission attributed these issues to a lack of interest in
respect for human rights and lack of consideration for athletes, heated competition and obsession
with winning, and absence of guidelines and/or manual that fosters a human rights-based approach
in event management.
To address this issue, the Commission set out to establish human rights safeguards, guidelines
Part 2 Key NHRCK Activities
because a lot of energy was spent on event management, and there were not enough waiting rooms
to protect athletes’ right to health, and essential facility criteria applicable to sports competitions.
For this purpose, it concluded that development and distribution of a Standard Sports Event
Commission consulted with various experts and collected the opinions of end-users to ensure
that the Sports & Olympic Committee and individual sport associations can be informed when
establishing their own tailored guidelines.
■ Commissioned study to update the Human Rights in Sports Charter and
Guidelines
In 2010, the Commission established the Human Rights in Sports Charter and Guidelines to
provide set rules of behaviors in relation to certain areas of concern, such as protection against
violence and sexual violence, and guarantee of the right to learning. Changes in the human rights
landscape in the subsequent ten years called for an update to the Charter and Guidelines.
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Part 3 Appendices
Management Guidelines encompassing the above would be necessary. To this end, the