ABSTRACT
At a time when the sports world is plagued by excessive commercialization, doping, corruption, illicit behaviour and blind ambition, can human rights improve the quality of youth sports and the status of young athletes? This book is a first attempt to understand the human rights implications of involving children in competitive sports. It clearly demonstrates that human rights and competitive sport are closely interwoven, despite the fact that they have ignored each other for decades. It also reveals that, of all domains, sport is one of the few that has not yet been penetrated by children’s rights. If we are to understand better how human rights can improve the protection of all young athletes’ rights, the link between human rights and sports must be explored attentively.
