NEW ARTICLE: Sport as a Space for Human Rights Education and Children’s Rights

Jonathan Todres & Ursula Kilkelly, “Sport as a Space for Human Rights Education and Children’s Rights,” Human Rights Education Review, 8: 1-19 (2025)

Abstract:

Children’s participation in sport presents a key opportunity for the advancement of human rights education. Human rights education is recognised as vital to the realisation of human rights. However, many countries have yet to implement human rights education for all children. Where human rights education has gained traction, it is largely centred around school-based learning. For human rights education to realise its full potential to advance children’s rights, policymakers and practitioners need to find diverse ways to implement it. Human rights education should reach beyond the classroom into spaces where children spend time, meeting children where they are. Given that many children spend substantial time in sport environments, sport presents an important space for human rights education. This article discusses how, by creating a framework for children’s rights protection in sport, it can be a site of human rights education, fostering greater implementation of children’s rights more generally.

Full article available (open access) at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25355406.2024.2426870#d1e135.