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The Programme has used the period to refocus its efforts to: (a) tailor responses to the pandemic; (b) enhance multilingualism; and (c) continue the delivery of global activities through online means. 55. To mark International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, in April, “Sports challenge”, a social media campaign on sport as a tool to remain focused, positive and united, was launched in Uzbekistan. (...) The Programme has organized over 250 online activities that have reached nearly 100,000 people. The activities have included workshops with academics, online Model United Nations simulations, online training for primary school teachers and awareness-raising activities for higher academic institutions.

A total of 230 active users of the portal responded to an online survey conducted by UNODC to assess the usefulness of the different sections of SHERLOC. (...) Discussions are ongoing with a number of sports organizations about further cooperation in addressing integrity and good governance in sport, with a focus on prevention, enforcement and education. (...) An updated list of competent authorities and government agencies is available from an online directory (www.unodc.org/compauth_uncac/en/index.html). 64.

In this context, as at 6 July 2011, Member States, civil society groups and United Nations entities have organized 354 events to mark the year, ranging from conferences, forums, camps, exhibitions, competitions (such as sports, writing, photography, art), film screenings, concerts and training workshops, to intergenerational conferences, model United Nations conferences, youth summits, festivals, online and offline courses on youth-related issues and community-service projects.4 These activities focused on key topics such as the environment, HIV and AIDS and youth participation and empowerment. 8. (...) In addition, a large-scale sporting event, “Building bridges for friendship”, was organized in Shenzhen. 12. (...) In Trinidad and Tobago, the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs ran programmes on environmental issues.

An updated list is available to competent authorities and government agencies from an online directory on the UNODC website (www.unodc.org/compauth_uncac/en/index.html). 2. (...) In addition, UNODC conducted a workshop on preventing corruption in sport for sport governance bodies, law enforcement officials and relevant stakeholders in Hanoi in August 2017. (...) A UNODC representative participated in the third LawInSport Annual Conference, entitled “Understand the rules of the game 2018”, contributing as a panellist on good governance and anti-corruption in sport. The conference, held in London in September 2017, involved over 250 leading sports lawyers, sports executives, academics, students and athletes, who networked and discussed the key issues and developments in international sports law. 84.

Sports, the assumption had been, could only be good; criticism had been viewed as tantamount to a desire to destroy the sports system. (...) Concussions were an additional threat to the well-being of children who played contact sports. Some children were even encouraged to drop out of school to focus on their sport. (...) Despite such steps, both States and sporting federations lacked solid frameworks for protecting and promoting the rights of children involved in sports.

The Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ghana has a policy to collaborate with sports federations, non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations and private sector sports academies to use sport for development and peace. (...) The Cyprus Sport Organization also initiated a study on leisure sport participation in Cyprus to identify the participation of Cypriots in mass sports and grass-roots sports. (...) The site serves as the online hub for the involvement of the United Nations system in sport for development and peace and is complemented by presences on social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube). 37.

Reaffirms that sport is an important enabler of sustainable development, and recognizes the growing contribution of sport to the realization of development, justice and peace through its promotion of tolerance and respect and the contributions it makes to the empowerment of women and of young people, individuals and communities, as well as to health, education and social inclusion objectives; 2. Invites Member States, entities of the United Nations system, the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee and other stakeholders, including sports-related organizations, federations and associations, athletes, the media, civil society, academia and the private sector, to promote greater awareness and action to reduce crime so as to contribute to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 16 through sports-based initiatives, taking into account the importance of youth crime prevention and criminal justice and the risks to youth posed by corruption and crime in sport, and to use sport as a tool to promote peace, justice and dialogue during and beyond the period of the Olympic and Paralympic Games; 3. (...) Welcomes the work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice, particularly its efforts to promote sport in the context of youth crime and drug abuse prevention as a vehicle for life-skills training, and its efforts to address the risk posed to youth by corruption and crime in sport, including through the development of tools and the provision of technical assistance in the context of the Global Programme for the Implementation of the Doha Declaration: Towards the Promotion of a Culture of Lawfulness, and the Global Programme on Safeguarding Sport from Corruption and Crime; 7.