SDG 3 - Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Physical activity and sport are key components of active lifestyles and mental well-being; they can contribute to prevent risks such as non-communicable diseases, as well as serve as a tool for education on sexual, reproductive and other health issues.
The Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) contributes to ensuring healthy lives and promotes well-being for all, at all ages, by supporting its member states in making sport fairer, safer and in conformity with high ethical standards. EPAS achieves those objectives by organising events and implementing projects to raise awareness on safe and healthy sport environments and to promote the well-being of those who do sport, with a particular focus on combatting sexual abuse in sport.
As the UN recognises that sport contributes to well-being, regardless of age, gender or ethnicity, EPAS has an important role to play by supporting its member states and by facilitating co-operation at local, national and international level.
The Council of Europe also co-ordinates the implementation of the Convention on an Integrated Safety, Security and Service Approach at Football Matches and Other Sports Events (CETS No. 218) and the Anti-Doping Convention (ETS No. 135), which ensure the health and well-being of athletes and spectators.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, through its Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media, is actively supporting the work of EPAS in promoting healthy lifestyle and values of sport. In its Resolution 2131(2016) Sport for all: a bridge to equality, integration and social inclusion, it encourages a more integrated and dynamic approach to promoting access to sport, notably through increased co-operation between stakeholders and through establishing effective monitoring mechanisms of any form of discrimination in sport. It also calls on the International Olympic Committee to develop a comprehensive programme for the promotion of sport for all and the fight against discrimination.
