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8 Jun 2017

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Fifa activity update on human rights

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This activity update provides an overview of FIFA’s work on human rights one year after FIFA’s statutory commitment on human rights came into force in April 2016. Article 3 of the revised FIFA Statutes stipulates that “FIFA is committed to respecting all internationally recognised human rights and shall strive to promote the protection of these rights.” This update report is published alongside FIFA’s Human Rights Policy, which was adopted by the FIFA Council in May 2017. This report introduces FIFA’s four-pillar human rights approach, which serves as a structuring framework for its human rights work. Each of the four pillars includes two work areas: commit and embed, identify and address, protect and remedy, and engage and communicate. The approach is based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), which provide an authoritative international framework outlining the human rights responsibilities of international sports entities such as FIFA. The report goes on to outline key steps that FIFA has taken in each of the eight work areas. It shows that signi cant progress has been made over the past year in systematising and strengthening FIFA’s human rights work in all of these areas...