Webinar - Paradigm shift: Sports law in the age of business and human rights

 SPEAKERS

Brendan Schwab, Executive Director, World Players Association, UNI Global Union
Gigi Alford, Head of Sport and Human Rights, World Players Association, UNI Global Union (also, Coordinator of the Sport & Rights Alliance)
Matthew D. Kaiser, Associate at Global Sports Advocates
Sean Cottrell (Chair), CEO, LawInSport

A guide to the World Players Association’s Universal Declaration of Player Rights - By Matthew Kaiser, 16 February 2018, LawInSport,
https://www.lawinsport.com/topics/articles/item/a-guide-to-the-world-players-association-s-universal-declaration-of-player-rights
Sport’s human rights requirements: an opportunity and challenge for sports lawyers as well as sports governing bodies - By Brendan Schwab, 15 March 2018, LawInSport https://www.lawinsport.com/topics/articles/athlete-welfare/item/sport-s-human-rights-requirements-an-opportunity-and-challenge-for-sports-lawyers-as-well-as-sports-governing-bodies
When We Know Better, We Do Better - Embedding the Human Rights of Players as a Prerequisite to the Legitimacy of Lex Sportiva and Sport's Justice System - By Brendan Schwab, 04 December 2017, Maryland Journal of International Law, https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/mjil/vol32/iss1/4/

Universal Declaration of Player Rights - https://www.uniglobalunion.org/sites/default/files/files/news/official_udpr.pdf
Background to the development of the Universal Declaration including research into the practical condition of athletes and players - https://www.uniglobalunion.org/sites/default/files/imce/udpr_development_14_dec_17_v1.pdf
World Player Rights Policy - https://www.uniglobalunion.org/sites/default/files/imce/world_player_rights_policy_doc_v1.pdf
Report – Championing Human Rights in the Governance of Sports Bodies (Mega Sporting Events Platform for Human Rights) https://www.ihrb.org/megasportingevents/resource-view/championing-human-rights-governance-sports-bodies
Report – The Mega-Sporting Event Lifecycle – Embedding Human Rights from Vision to Legacy (Mega Sporting Events Platform for Human Rights) https://www.ihrb.org/megasportingevents/resource-view/mse-lifecycle-embedding-human-rights-from-vision-to-legacy

“FOR THE GAME. FOR THE WORLD.” FIFA and Human Rights by John G. Ruggie, April 2016 - can be viewed here
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights can be viewed here
Webinar Presentation by Brendan Schwab and Gigi Alford can be viewed here

Yogyakarta Principles plus 10 - https://yogyakartaprinciples.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/A5_yogyakartaWEB-2.pdf
World Players’ analysis of the significance for athlete’s rights of the 2018 Human Rights Council resolution on promoting human rights through sport and the Olympic ideal - https://medium.com/@worldplayers/human-rights-council-speaks-up-for-athletes-rights-in-wake-of-surging-abuses-9e66f081cb4f
Katrina Karkazis’ interview on the latest episode of the Edge of Sport as a resource for insight into her views on the IAAF’s new hyperandrogenism regulation.
Here’s her pre-release paper on the topic: 'The Powers of Testosterone: Obscuring Race and Regional Bias in the Regulation of Women Athletes' by Katrina Karkazis
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324756732_The_Powers_of_Testosterone_Obscuring_Race_and_Regional_Bias_in_the_Regulation_of_Women_Athletes

The draft OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct, which will be officially released in June at the annual meeting: https://mneguidelines.oecd.org/OECD-Due-Diligence-Guidance-Responsible-Business-Conduct.pdf