This advocacy brief was prepared for UNESCO Bangkok by David Kirk. It has benefited greatly from review and comments by Elyse Ruest-Archambault and Michael Albert from Right To Play, and colleagues at UNESCO including Golda El-Khoury, Maki Hayashikawa, Nancy Mclennan, Lydia Ruprecht and Idit Shamir. In addition, valuable inputs were received from Adrien Boucher, Fuchsia Hepworth, Nantawan Hinds, Elinor Tan, Dieter Schlenker and Sirisak Chaiyasook at UNESCO Bangkok.