ABSTRACT
It is not necessary to view the issue of human rights as divorced or separate from the world of sport. The struggle for and diffusion of human rights in the post-twentieth-century world has become an international concern and yet only recently has the re-emergence of a human rights agenda in sport become part of the contemporary debate within the area of sport, culture and society (David, 2005; Kidd and Donnelly, 2000; Donnelly, 1988; Kidd, 1996, 1982). More importantly, despite the potential possibilities inherent within the idea of sport supporting the notion of human rights and a growing sense of equality and social justice in sport, culture and society such a reality has not emerged from the many, often unconnected, campaigns for social change. The persistence of economic inequality, poverty and labour violations means that the world in particular and sport in general has a long way to go before the potential of sport, culture and society being free from such practices becomes much more than utopian thinking.
