Sports can only flourish in an atmosphere of peace and security. With its universal reach, Sports culture is a joyful medium to promote the universal values of human rights. This is the focus of the cooperation with our partners (City of Venice, Region of Veneto, CIP Veneto, Panathlon Club Venezia, The Human Safety Net, Venice Marathon) through a series of sportive events and awards which have been developed every year.
The Venice Marathon proves to be an important event, and solidarity has always been an integral part of the project. Proof of this is the numbers of their Charity Programme which in 10 years has raised over 1 million euros, but above all it is the enthusiasm with which the non-profit organizations participate in the initiative every year and are committed to creating teams of activists and ambassadors of good causes at their Expo Sports Charity Programme Village stands at San Giuliano Park (VE) on 24 and 25 October 2025.
In that sense, we would like to invite our community of students, alumni, professors, experts and staff to keep standing up for human rights and participate at our Sports/Arts/HumanRights Awards Ceremony and a Movie Screening of the documentary “The Right to Race” (On | The Right to Race Trailer – YouTube) to interact with our awardees, partners and team of solidarity runners participating in the Venice Marathon 2025. To register to this launch event in presence on Wednesday 22 October, 17hs – 19.30hs at the Home of the Human Safety Net, Piazza San Marco 128, please click here: https://thehumansafetynet.my.site.com/registertoevent/s/?cmpId=701R200001KgSfo
You could also donate to our crowdfunding related campaign to help with the creation of GC scholarships to keep building our community and to promote human rights education linked to the sports and arts. Find some our 42k athletes here: CORRO PER I DIRITTI UMANI | Rete del Dono part of the campaign BORSE DI STUDIO A VENEZIA #RUN4GCHR2025 | Rete del Dono
To give us visibility, please follow us and share our social media posts with the hashtags #GCHumanRights #Sport4HumanRights #VeniceMarathon #RUN4GCHR2025
Check the Venice Marathon 2025 full programme:
https://www.venicemarathon.it/index.php
For more info, please contact communications@gchumanrights.org
And stay tuned for our next campaigns related to the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympics 2026!