Rasism och fotboll - Jämförande studie av FIFA:s och FN:s syn på rasism
(2010) MRSG20 20101Human Rights Studies
Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
- Abstract
- Racism is a scourge of society, and creates division between human beings. Football is a sport that in many ways creates unity. Despite of this, the problems of racism is very substantial in football. The international football association (FIFA) has a lot of the responsibility to erase racism from the sport. How successfully FIFA will cope with the problems of racism, depends on the organization´s basic view on racism. That is the reason why I in this essay have analyzed FIFA´s view on racism. I also compare this view to the racism view of the UN. The UN´s view on racism is based on human rights and therefore gives a human rights approach to racism. My conclusions are that the organizations views on racism are very much alike. Therefore... (More)
- Racism is a scourge of society, and creates division between human beings. Football is a sport that in many ways creates unity. Despite of this, the problems of racism is very substantial in football. The international football association (FIFA) has a lot of the responsibility to erase racism from the sport. How successfully FIFA will cope with the problems of racism, depends on the organization´s basic view on racism. That is the reason why I in this essay have analyzed FIFA´s view on racism. I also compare this view to the racism view of the UN. The UN´s view on racism is based on human rights and therefore gives a human rights approach to racism. My conclusions are that the organizations views on racism are very much alike. Therefore they also have a lot to learn from each other, and possibilities to cooperate against
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- author
- Vilhelmsson, Jonas LU
- supervisor
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- Johan Cato LU
- organization
- course
- MRSG20 20101
- year
- 2010
- type
- L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
- subject
- keywords
- fotboll, FIFA, FN, rasism
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1653212
- date added to LUP
- 2010-09-24 16:53:41
- date last changed
- 2014-09-04 08:27:54
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