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The Sports Ethics Center (Han Min-soo, Lee (President) Acting Director, hereinafter "the Center"), under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, implemented on-site human rights protection activities to safeguard athletes in collaboration with the Korea Hockey Association at the '40th President's Cup National Hockey Tournament' held recently at a hockey stadium in Gimhae City, Gyeongsangnam-do.
Regarding this activity, the Center stated, "This was conducted to support hockey players so they can be protected from human rights violations such as violence, sexual harassment, and sexual assault, and focus on their games in a safe environment."
It further added, "The Center deployed human rights protection officers at the tournament venue to conduct human rights monitoring across the entire stadium and athlete team operations, and carried out human rights violation prevention activities targeting athletes and coaches."
The Center emphasized, "We operated a real-time response system to provide counseling and reporting support for any human rights-related grievances that could arise on-site, striving to create a safe tournament environment."
Sports Ethics Center human rights protection officers are official professional personnel operated by the Center based on the National Sports Promotion Act. The Center described this as "a national-level sports human rights protection system dedicated to preventing and responding to human rights violations in sports settings."
It further noted, "This on-site activity served as an opportunity to further strengthen the on-site response system for athlete protection based on the cooperation of the Korea Hockey Association. The Center aims to continue promoting human rights protection activities centered on sports settings by expanding collaboration with relevant institutional investors and other stakeholders in the future."
Han Min-soo, Lee (President) Acting Director of the Sports Ethics Center, stated, "It is more important than anything else to resolve blind spots in human rights violations and create a sports environment where athletes can focus solely on hockey games and training. Based on our core values of transparency, justice, consideration, and responsibility, we will do our best to spread a proper sports ethics culture."
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