sports

UNICEF and FIFA kick off ‘Goals for Girls!’ campaign to promote rights

10 September 2007
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) have kicked off a new “Goals for Girls!” campaign which aims to promote education, gender equality and women’s rights through sport.

UNESCO joins forces with Belgian tennis ace to encourage sporting values

6 July 2007
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is teaming up next week with the world’s top female tennis player, Belgium’s Justine Henin, to promote sporting values such as fair play and honesty and to warn of the dangers of using performance-enhancing drugs.

Sport can produce valuable results in development and peace – UN official

21 May 2007
Emphasizing that sport and physical activity can be utilized to boost development and peace, as well as provide important health benefits, a United Nations sports official today outlined UN-led initiatives in three countries to bring people together through sport.
Zidane and Ronaldo

Ace goal scorers to shoot against poverty in UN football match

21 February 2007
Football legends Ronaldo and Zinédine Zidane are inviting some of the world’s top players to join them in an all-star line-up for a match against poverty next month as part of a push to raise awareness of and funds for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

UN supports launch of the International Year of African Football to boost development

30 January 2007
Counting down to the 2010 soccer World Cup in South Africa, and boosting the continent’s efforts to improve education and health through sport, the African Union (AU), South Africa and Ethiopia have nominated 2007 as the International Year of African Football, an initiative welcomed by the United Nations as part of its global drive linking sport with development.