Today (6 April) we mark the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP), an annual celebration of the power of sport to unite people and help build a peaceful and better world. Creating a historical link to the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, 6 April was declared the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 2013, and has been celebrated each year ever since 2014.
Young Change-Makers Champ Camp providing opportunities for refugees
On International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, we highlight an amazing project by Waleed Abu Nada, a Young Change-Maker from Jordan, who is working with an Olympic weightlifter to help build inclusion in one of the worlds largest Palestinian refugee camps.
Canadas all-time leading ice hockey scorer and a four-time Olympic gold medallist, Hayley Wickenheiser discusses meeting the Unified Korean Womens Ice Hockey Team at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 and her subsequent trip to the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.
The Olympic Games showed the world how to compete peacefully. They showed us that despite all our differences, it is possible for humankind to live together in peace, respect and harmony.
President Bach: the IOCs political neutrality and the Korean peninsula
IOC President Thomas Bach has highlighted the central importance of political neutrality for the Olympic Games to achieve their overarching goal to bring the world together in peaceful competition.
History was made at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 on Saturday 10 February as the unified Korean womens ice hockey team took to the ice for their opening preliminary match against Switzerland. It was the first time the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) had come together to field a team at the Winter Games.
Gender Equality Leadership Forum sets the tone for effective change
Electoral processes, gender-neutral portrayal and meaningful inclusion in decision-making roles key themes of the recently launched International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Gender Equality Review Project recommendations - were at the heart of the discussions during the third International Federation (IF) Gender Equality in Leadership Forum, which took place in Lausanne, Switzerland yesterday.
Yiech Pur Biel is a South Sudanese refugee who lived in the Kakuma Refugee camp in Kenya from the age of 10. He made history as a middle-distance runner on the 2016 Refugee Olympic Team in Rio.
International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) is an annual celebration of the power of sport to drive social change, community development and to foster peace and understanding.
