Switzerland’s Century-Long Rise as the Hub of Global Sport Administration

Chappelet, Jean-Loup

doi:10.1080/09523367.2021.1915294

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“…For example, considering just recent and upcoming Olympic Games host countries, by 2021 neither the United States nor China had ratified the 2006 Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance; neither Brazil, France nor the United States had signed or ratified the 1990 Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families; Japan had not ratified the 1957 Abolition of Forced Labour Convention; and Australia had not ratified the 1972 Minimum Age Convention (for children's work). Conversely, Switzerland-the seat of numerous global sport organisations (Chappelet 2021)-has ratified most of the fundamental conventions listed by the OHCHR and ILO. These differences between countries make human rights a highly political issue.…”

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The Olympics’ evolving relationship with human rights: an ongoing affair

Chappelet

2021

Sport in Society

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Human rights have become an increasingly important topic for mega sports events since the start of the 21st century, and the issue will undoubtedly make the headlines again in relation to Beijing hosting the XXIV Winter Olympic Games in February 2022 and Qatar hosting the Men's Football World Cup in November 2022. The present review shows that the modern Olympic Games' relationship with human rights has evolved in step with society's evolving conception of human rights. This evolution is clearly illustrated by the Olympic system's attitude toward human rights at four key periods, centred round the 1936 Olympics, the Games of the 1960s and 1970s, the Games in China (2008, 2014 and 2022) and future editions of the Games (from 2024). Each moment required the Olympic Games to consider human rights that it had rarely had to attend to before. Indeed, given society's increasing concern for human rights, the Olympic system and host countries will undoubtedly have to pay ever-greater attention to the issue when attributing and staging Olympic Games.In 2022 China will host the XXIV Winter Olympic Games (in Beijing), while Qatar will stage the 22nd Men's Football World Cup. The 11th Gay Games, originally scheduled for 2021, will also take place in China (Hong Kong) in 2022. The organisations responsible for attributing these events-the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the Federation of Gay Games-chose these countries despite frequent criticism of their human rights records and society's increasing demands that sports events respect human rights.In step with society, scholars have devoted a lot of attention to the issue of human rights and sport since the beginning of the 21st century (e.g.

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confidence: 99%