Hudson Taylor, Athlete Ally

1. Making the Case:
Toward a Declarattion of
Human Rights in Sports

2. Athlete Ally
Our mission is to educate
and activate athletic
communities to eliminate
homophobia and transphobia
in sports and to exercise
their leadership to champion
LGBT equality.

3. We envision a future where
sport welcomes everyone
without prejudice or
stereotypes, and where
athletic communities work
together to champion
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender equality.

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14. Key to Sports
Organizing and Impact

15. Why?
What?

16. To change a culture,
we do not argue right vs. wrong,
But instead redefine the
dominant identity of our audience.

17. So what is the
Dominant identity
Of sports?

18. It is defined by the
Principles we attribute to it.

19. With the creation of a
Declaration for Human Rights in Sports,
The “why” becomes “why not.”

20. But what do
We want it to do?

21. But what do
We want it to do?
And who do we want it to help?

22. Athletes

23. 1. Define individual athlete rights.
2. Define the responsibility of sport
governing bodies to protect
athletes seeking asylum or
those displaced due to conflict.

24. Fans

25. 1.Create a uniform fan code of
conduct to ensure that every
fan has equal access and
experience.
2.Ensure that global sporting
facilities are accessible for
people of all bodies and
abilities.

26. Sport Governance

27. 1. Ensure diversity of
representation in sports
governance.
2. Ensure that sport
governing bodies provide
equitable resourcing
across sports.

28. Sporting Event
Contractors and Workers

29. 1. Ensure that those building sports
venues are equitably paid and
protected.
1. Ensure that those who work a
sporting event are properly paid.
2. Ensure that merchandise sold at
sporting events is made with
ethical standards of pay and
saftey.

30. Host Communities

31. 1. Home and community displacement.
2. Environmental footprint of sporting
event.
3. Sex and human trafficking in
conjunction with sporting event.

32. Mechanisms
for
Accountability

33. 1. What policies can be drafted to the human rights
standards we collectively believe in and how can we
work together to apply them to sporting
constituents and those impacted by sport?
2. What system of evaluation can be implemented to
keep all sports and their governing bodies
accountable to human rights expectations and
goals?
A. Craft human rights policy and program
checklist.
B. How do these principles becoming integrated
into the bidding process for hosting all major
sporting events?

34. The Olympic Model is broken

35. A Declaration for Human
Rights in Sports could fix it.

36. It would:
1. Unite human rights activists.
2. Define the role and responsibility of
sport globally.
3. Create a platform for accountability.
4. Influence event host to champion
human rights.

37. Thank You!
Hudson Taylor
hudson@athleteally.org
@Hudsonism
@AthleteAlly
609-712-4306