UN rights council blasts IAAF over testosterone rules for female athletes

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“She cannot be told by anybody on the basis of ... dubious scientific evidence that she is not a woman.”

In a rare intrusion in the world of sport, the United Nations’ top rights body has passed a resolution stating that the International Association of Athletics Federations may be in breach of “international human rights norms and standards“.

“It means that in essence all the members of the UN agree with us,” Mxakato-Diseko said. “Caster is a woman,” the ambassador added. Double Olympic champion Semenya, who has dominated the women’s 800 metres over the last decade, has filed a challenge against the IAAF at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Mxakato-Diseko said her push to involve the high commissioner and to introduce this issue into the UN system was to ensure that sport organisations cannot “selectively choose which human rights they are going to follow“.

 

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