Youth Charter's International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP)

On Saturday 6th April, the Youth Charter marked the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) by calling on the global SDP movement at the 2024 Sport Accord to make a declaration in support of our Global #Call2Action...

Sport for All as a Fundamental Human Right
The Youth Charter is in it's 4th decade of campaigning, advocating and promoting the role and value of sport, art, culture and digital technology in the lives of disaffected young people from disadvantaged communities nationally and internationally.
 
The Youth Charter believes that it is a fundamental human right that young people have access to sport, arts and cultural activity as part of their mental, physical and emotional health, wellbeing and development. When this right is denied, the disadvantage and disaffection lead to antisocial behaviours, gang related activity and in some cases extremism. This impacts on the quality of life, not only of the young person, but their victims, families, friends, communities, and society as a whole.

SDP and the UN IOC Accord
Since 1993, the Youth Charter has helped to pioneer the global Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) movement/sector, and as a UN accredited NGO the Youth Charter has supported the development of the United Nations SDP programme, which has evolved from the UN's first SDP Resolutions in 1993 and the UN Office for Sport for Development and Peace from 2002 to 2017, and the current Inter-Agency Group on Sport for Development and Peace set up in 2022.

The UN IOC Accord has developed over the past 100 years and is now firmly established as a global SDP partnership for delivering the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

For more on the Call2Action, click here.