Game Over for Russian Athletes? Human Rights Aspects of Measures Adopted by International Sports Organisations as a Response to the Russian Aggression against Ukraine

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Result on the web

<a href="https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/iclr-2023-0008" target="_blank" >https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/iclr-2023-0008</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/iclr-2023-0008" target="_blank" >10.2478/iclr-2023-0008</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Game Over for Russian Athletes? Human Rights Aspects of Measures Adopted by International Sports Organisations as a Response to the Russian Aggression against Ukraine

Original language description

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has tested the mettle of the international community, prompting not only States but also non-state actors to take deterrent action in response. Indeed, international sports organisations, namely the Fédération Interna-tionale de Football Association (FIFA) and the Federation of European Football Associ-ations (UEFA), have been relatively successful in shifting the power dynamics by intro-ducing a complete ban on the Football Union of Russia (FUR), i.e., the Russian national and club teams. This article investigates the human rights implications of such actions by international sports organisations. First, the article departs from an assessment of the legal status of FIFA and UEFA under international law. It reflects how a legal link could be established vis-à-vis their human rights obligations. Second, it examines the human rights aspects of the impugned measures by FIFA and UEFA on the part of the Russian athletes, further scrutinising them against the international human rights law principle of non-discrimination through a proportionality test. Finally, it draws basic pathways for how possible human rights violations committed in the context of measures adopted by such organisations could be remedied, outlining the challenges of arbitration and litigation in Switzerland.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International and Comparative Law Review

ISSN

1213-8770

e-ISSN

2464-6601

Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

182-209

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85175349368