The Council of Europe (CoE) has released updated versions of its unique HELP Course on Human Rights in Sport.
The course goal is to help legal professionals and sports experts to better understand and apply European and international law standards in sports with a focus on human rights. Nowadays sport has achieved a significant level of impact on people: on their personal, social, and professional life. As the popularity of sport grows, more sport-related legal disputes and human rights related issues appear, some of them having been brought to the European Court on Human Rights.
The HELP course stresses the role of Council of Europe treaties and the protection provided by the ECHR and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
The CoE HELP online course has the following modules:
- Introduction
- Sports arbitration and litigation – Fair trial (Art. 6 of European Convention on Human Rights - the ECHR)
- Privacy (Art. 8 of the ECHR)
- Life and security (Art. 2, 3 and 4 of the ECHR)
- Liberty, Freedom of Expression and Assembly (Art. 5, 10 and 11 of the ECHR)
- Prohibition of discrimination
- Anti-doping and human rights
- Sports manipulation and human rights
- Safety and security of sport events and human rights
The course has been developed jointly by the Council of Europe’s Children’s Rights and Sport Values Department and the CoE Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) Programme, in collaboration with MGIMO University.
Those who complete it online can obtain an electronic ‘Statement of accomplishment’.
Upon request by the national authorities, the course can be translated into other languages and adapted to the national legal order and context.
The online course is available for free in English and Russian on the CoE HELP e-learning platform at http://help.elearning.ext.coe.int/.
