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The Hammamet ( Tunisia ) Declaration

International Conference on Sport and Health

Hammamet , Tunisia , 21-24 March 2005

Within the framework of the International Year of Sport and Physical Education (IYSPE 2005), 370 participants from 40 countries took part in the International Conference on Sport and Health in Hammamet , Tunisia , 21-24 March 2005 organized under the sponsorship of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and the Government of Tunisia.

The Hammamet ( Tunisia ) Declaration

The Conference,

Recalling UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/58/5 (November 2003) on sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace;

Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the final document of the UN General Assembly Special Session dedicated to children entitled “A World Worthy of Children";

Recalling the UNESCO International Charter on Physical Education and Sport (1978);

Recalling World Health Organization (WHO) Resolution WHA57.16: Promotion of Health and Healthy Lifestyles, and Resolution WHA57.17: World Strategy on Diet, Physical Exercise and Health (May 2004);

Recalling the Copenhagen Declaration by Governments regarding the World Anti-Doping Agency (AMA) (2003);

Recalling the Berlin Agenda for action for Ministers for Government of the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE) (1999);

Recalling the Declaration of the 10 th World Congress on Sport for All of the International Olympic Committee ( Rome , November 2004);

 

Recalling other international conferences related to sport and health;

Considering that physical activity and sport, in the broadest sense, are determining factors for promotion of health and improving the quality of life;

Considering the important health, educational, and socio-economic benefits offered by sport and physical activity;

Considering the cultural and social impact of sport;

Considering that physical education plays and important role in promoting health and quality of life for all;

Considering the lack of coordination among the many projects making use of sport and physical activity;

Considering the spread of non-transmissible diseases linked in particular to sedentary lifestyles and obesity and their economic and social costs;

Considering that the deviant behaviour linked to sport, such as doping, cheating and violence, stand in opposition to efforts to promote good health through physical activity;

Considering that harmonization of various legislation is essential for coordination of the campaign against doping;

Considering that the responsibility for putting these recommendations into action rests jointly on Governments, inter-governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, public and private sectors in each country and those involved,

therefore proposes:

1. to slow to the state of decline in physical education and sport in education institutions;


2. to ensure that the ethical values of sport are maintained so that sport continues to be an instrument for promoting health;
   
3. to develop multi-sectoral programme and environments that encourage physical activity and sport by the public, and particular children and adolescents, always keeping in mind their physical and mental well-being;
   
4. to recognize specifically physical activity and sport for women, while ensuring respect for parity at all levels within the sports movement;
   
5. to establish partnerships among all key actors (for example national authorities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), sports organizations, the private sector, professional organizations, the media) with the goal of making effective use of resources and promoting synergies;
   
6. to promote an awareness of physical activity and sport and to collaborate closely with the media to spread information and transmit knowledge;
   
7. to ensure better international coordination to obtain a full view of political issues and to improve measurement tools through and observatory, which is planned;
   
8. to defend and promote sport that healthy and clean, as well as its ethical, educational and hygienic values;
   
9. to ensure that the World anti-doping code is recognized and applied by all, through an international legal instrument.
   

And therefore, the Conference:

1. Invites all actors concerned to make the International Year the foundation of a new alliance between physical education, sport and development, respect and human dignity;
   
2. Urges the United Nations Office responsible for the celebration of the International Year of Sport and Physical Education 2005 to take the Declaration of Hammamet ( Tunisia ) into account in its final report submitted to the United Nations General Assembly;
   
3. And lastly invites the Secretary-General of the United Nations to ensure the success of the celebration of this International Year by requesting that all the parties concerned put into practice physical activities and sports as a human right in pursuing efforts such that every individual will have the opportunity to participate in physical and sporting activities according to their needs and capabilities.

 

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