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| While France is hosting the Rugby World Cup 2007, the city of Saint-Denis, which will host some of the most challenging games in its Stade de France, is organizing a World Sports Forum, under the patronage of UNESCO. From anti-doping to the fight against racism and the position of women in sports, 8 debates will suggest a different sport in a different world… |
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 From September 7 to October 8 2007, the World Sports Forum, located in the “RugbyColor” village, will be offering an opportunity to discuss, from an angle very similar to UNESCO’s, the social and cultural function of sport.
On 8 occasions, sport managers, athletes, elected representatives, social science researchers as well as representatives of UNESCO member states or networks, will be confronting their opinions but also sharing their experiences of a world in transformation.
The programme of these debates, which will be followed by the publication of proceedings in in English and French, includes:- Friday September 7 (4.00 p.m.): “The globalisation of rugby: an opportunity or a threat?”
- Friday September 14 (4.00 p.m.): “Get racism out of stadiums!”
- Friday September 21 (4.00 p.m.): “Women invent a new sport”
- Friday September 28 (6.00 p.m.): “What if sport were to go green?”
- Sunday October 7 (4.00 p.m.): “No to doping, no to excessive competition, no to physical one-upmanship: yes to risk-free sport”
- Saturday October 13 (4.00 p.m.): “Are athletes role models?”
- Sunday October 14 (4.00 p.m.): “Media, sponsors, IOC, states and federations – who controls sport?”
- Saturday October 20 (4.00 p.m.): “Managing sport globalisation across the North–South divide”
UNESCO will be defending its vision of sport as contributing to the fulfillment of individuals and enhancing their social integration, as well as favouring dialogue among people and thus helping to build a “culture of peace”.
The delegates of the 5th UNESCO Youth Forum, which will take place in Paris on October 12 and 13, will be invited to visit the RugbyColor village, at the end of their group work, in order to share with the young representatives of the city an evening of exchange and discovery around sport and its values.
More information: Other events in August 2007:- 10-11 September: Meeting of the group of experts on "development of minimum norms for Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) to comply with the human rights framework: a decision-making tool for funding negotiation." Paris, France.
- 10-13 September: Expert Group Meeting: Creating an Inclusive Society - Practical Strategies to Promote Social Integration. Paris, France.
- 11-12 September: National workshop on regional integration. Côte d’Ivoire.
- 19-21 September: Joint meeting between UNESCO and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) on the "stakes of the fight against poverty from a human rights perspective in the states of the WAEMU." Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
- 24- 26 September: Second evaluation meeting of the MOST project “Nation-states and the challenges of regional integration in West Africa”. Praia, Cap Verde. Praia, Cap Verde.
- 25-26 September: First Annual General Conference of the UNESCO Coalition of Latin American and Caribbean Cities against Racism, Discrimination and Xenophobia. Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 26-28 September: UNESCO Conference “Ethics of Energy Technologies in Asia and the Pacific.” Bangkok, Thailand.
- 28-29 September: International seminar at the University of Venice: “Urban policies and the integration of migrants.” Venice, Italy.
For more detailed information: www.unesco.org/shs/agenda. |
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| Author(s) |
UNESCO - Sector for Social and Human Sciences |
| Publication Date |
06-09-2007 |
| Source |
SHS e-News 18 / September 2007 |
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