Qatar World Cup and Sportwashing: Adam Talbot
The term sportswashing has emerged in recent years, often to decry sporting events being hosted in authoritarian regimes with the purpose of improving reputations. First used to describe the 2015 European Games in Baku, the term...
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EventRights scholars draw attention to Qatar World Cup Human Rights concerns
This article was initially written for the North Carolina State University News.Jason Bocarro,...
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EventRights host Symposium on Sport Events and Human Rights
Hosted by the Centre for Culture, Sport & Events at UWS, Foregrounding a Rights-Based Agenda...
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Eventrights scholars participate in IOA’s Young Participants session
EventRights’ Professor David McGillivray (university of the West of Scotland) was recently...
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Olympic Values gain importance from people’s perspective when there are human rights violations
By Dr. Joerg Koenigstorfer The United States of America will host the Olympic Games in 2028 (Los...
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How inclusive was the Rio Olympics?
One of our Partner Leads, Prof Marcelo Cortes Neri, from the Fundacion Getulio Vargas has edited a...
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The impact of COVID-19 on the work of the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) and its athletes.
Like all other sports organisations, the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation...
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What will post-COVID-19 imply for MSE’s and Human Rights? Possible lessons from large participant events.
Moving back a few months, few could have imagined that the commercial growth of mega sporting...
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2019 Japanese Rugby World Cup impact on human rights and the development of political capital
By Mark Piekarz, Coventry University The visit to Japan involved visiting 6 of the 12 stadiums and...
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Tokyo 2020: Tourism and sustainable development
Dr Mike Duignan reports from Tokyo. With respect to subject focus, I sought to examine various...
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Longitudinal study on the impact of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games upon the lived experience of people with disabilities living in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area
I visited Tokyo from 29th April to 30th May 2019 to commence a longitudinal study on the impact of...
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Exploring mega sport event governance: Chiara Rinaldi
I spent one month in mobility from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) to North Carolina State...
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