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Report: Children’s rights and Mega Sporting Events
A series of evidence-based briefing papers that set out the ways in which children’s rights intersect with mega sporting events. The 6 themes of the research: Labour, LGBT, Women, Environment, Housing...
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FIFA candidates should pledge to end human rights abuses linked to World Cup
Rights groups urge contenders to address labour abuses and discrimination The candidates seeking the presidency of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) should sign up to a set...
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FIFA: none of the candidates pledges adequate steps to prevent human rights...
FIFA: NOT ONE CANDIDATE PLEDGES ADEQUATE STEPS TO PREVENT HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE AND CORRUPTION “Let’s be clear. There is no time to waste in taking action to prevent human rights abuses linked to the...
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Research: The Other Side of the Medal
The research ‘The Other Side of the Medal: Major sporting events in Brazil in the web of urban planning, speculation and the right to the city” was conducted by Dawid Danilo Bartelt and published by...
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Human rights entering the FIFA Statutes
While all the attention is on the change of presidency at the head of FIFA, it is the set of reforms of the Statutes that give the framework of the urgently needed changes. The decisions adopted by the...
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Global Study: Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism
A two-year global study initiated by ECPAT International and published today reveals that more children are being sexually exploited than ever before and that this is an endemic phenomenon throughout...
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“Our children have a voice, and the fight will not stop!”
As they stand outside the manicured lawns of the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Ana Paula Oliveira and Maria da Penha’s expressions barely hint at the heartbreak both have suffered. Ana...
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Highlights from the UN Human Rights Council side event
Our panel at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Ana Paula Oliveira and Maria da Penha, two mothers from Rio affected by police violence and evictions linked to the FIFA World Cup and Olympic Games,...
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Rio 2016: ‘The other side of the medal’
WordPress Video Gallery Plugin Rio de Janeiro has been preparing itself for the eyes of the world ahead of next month’s Olympic Games by cleansing its streets of undesirables and demolishing entire...
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Research: The Other Side of the Medal
The research ‘The Other Side of the Medal: Major sporting events in Brazil in the web of urban planning, speculation and the right to the city” was conducted by Dawid Danilo Bartelt and published by...
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IOC in talks over human rights recommendations
The International Olympic Committee are in discussions with a coalition of leading sport and human rights groups about how the human rights abuses perpetrated in the build-up to the Rio Olympics can be...
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Experts warn of dire Olympic legacy for Rio’s children
Pic: Pim Ras / Terre des Hommes Two experts have issued urgent warnings about the impact of the Olympic Games on Rio’s most vulnerable children. Researchers Dr Andrea Rodriguez and Professor Lorraine...
View ArticleFIFA pledges to discuss human rights at future World Cups
Terre des Hommes welcomes FIFA’s new mission statement which includes an explicit pledge to discuss the preservation of human rights at future World Cups. In the document, FIFA 2.0: The Vision for the...
View ArticleMajor steps taken… but next comes accountability
Mega Sporting Event organisers have taken major steps forward recently in addressing concerns over human rights, but “implementation and accountability” will be the next hurdles. That was the clear...
View ArticleFIFA: Fan survey shows marginal increase in trust
A global survey of football fans has shown that trust in FIFA has marginally improved under new President Gianni Infantino – but that world football’s governing body still faces a huge task to...
View ArticleIOC in talks over human rights recommendations
The International Olympic Committee are in discussions with a coalition of leading sport and human rights groups about how the human rights abuses perpetrated in the build-up to the Rio Olympics can be...
View ArticleExperts warn of dire Olympic legacy for Rio’s children
Two experts have issued urgent warnings about the impact of the Olympic Games on Rio’s most vulnerable children. Researchers Dr Andrea Rodriguez and Professor Lorraine van Blerk recently published this...
View ArticleFIFA pledges to discuss human rights at future World Cups
Terre des Hommes welcomes FIFA’s new mission statement which includes an explicit pledge to discuss the preservation of human rights at future World Cups. In the document, FIFA 2.0: The Vision for the...
View ArticleMajor steps taken… but next comes accountability
Mega Sporting Event organisers have taken major steps forward recently in addressing concerns over human rights, but “implementation and accountability” will be the next hurdles. That was the clear...
View ArticleFIFA: Fan survey shows marginal increase in trust
A global survey of football fans has shown that trust in FIFA has marginally improved under new President Gianni Infantino – but that world football’s governing body still faces a huge task to...
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