Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights—A Time for More Teamwork

Bibliographic Data

ID13019249
AuthorsLucy Amis (corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume2
Issue1
Pages135-141
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBusiness and Human Rights Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2057-0198 • E-ISSN: 2057-0201
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/bhj.2016.29
OpenAlexW2570940688
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Mega-Sporting Events (MSEs) like the Olympics and FIFA World Cup inspire humanity and have the potential to promote human rights, including through job creation and urban regeneration. Yet for over a decade MSEs have been linked to a pattern of human rights abuses that reads like a panoply of Business and Human Rights themes. The very legitimacy and social license of MSEs is increasingly on the line. Yet we may have reached a tipping point. In the past year the Commonwealth Games Federation, FIFA, and the International Olympic Committee have begun to instigate human rights reforms. A new multi-stakeholder coalition, chaired by Mary Robinson and facilitated by IHRB, meanwhile is pursuing innovative collaborate solutions to the human rights issues at stake. Supported by international agencies, governments, sports bodies, sponsors and broadcasters, and civil society, this coalition seeks to promote learning and accountability in a sector for whom business and human rights is new territory

Accountability · Civil society · Human rights · International human rights law · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Law · Public Administration · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

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