Human Rights
What's a favela? Olympics and policing in Rio
What is a favela, a slum or a 100 year old community without services? What happens when the police move in? Gentrification?
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Sat, 14/01/2012 - 18:31.
Article | Displacement | Human Rights | Planning & Development | Rio de Janeiro 2016
in that spirit of christmas past
So, ever so slowly, slowly, slowly it's beginning to hit the public consciousness that certain of our civil liberties will be p*ssed upon from the great on high during the Olympics. And whether it's Collapsonomics-wrought inflation, or perhaps that the Summer Games attracts a higher premium than the Winter Games in any event, but those penalties have gone up markedly!
Submitted by Steve Dowding on Mon, 19/12/2011 - 21:46.
Blog | Crime | Human Rights | Protest
Dow: London's 2012 Perfect Olympic Sponsor
By Mike Wells , posted 29th December 2011, edited 11th January 2012Campaigners Against Dow
A recent sponsorship deal has seen the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games accept money from Dow Chemical. Dow will provide a fabric "wrap" which will be placed around London's Olympic stadium.
According to Britain's Guardian newspaper the wrap's purpose is to reduce wind inside the stadium. But, as the metaphor says ...
Submitted by Mike Wells on Mon, 19/12/2011 - 15:10.
Article | Radioactivity | 2012 Business | 2012 Sustainability | Corruption & Ethics | Environment | Finance | Funding | Health | Human Rights | IOC | Legacy | London 2012 | Sponsors
Witness delivers letter to Olympics Organisers on Rio Evictions
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Thu, 15/12/2011 - 21:27.
Article | Compulsory Purchase | Corruption & Ethics | Displacement | Human Rights | IOC | Mega Events | Rio de Janeiro 2016
LOCOG: paper promises, no real change
From Labour Behind The Label
As part of the Playfair 2012 campaign we've been lobbying the London Games organisers (LOCOG) to ensure workers making garments and merchandise for the Olympics have their rights respected. And on paper we've had reasonable success. But problems arise when we dig deeper.
Submitted by Steve Dowding on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 10:38.
Article | 2012 Jobs | Corruption & Ethics | Human Rights | Jobs | Mega Events
Dow 'mistake' could be a 'disaster'
Ted Jeory, one of the few journalists to pick up on the radioactive contamination of the London Olympic Park, has reported that London 2012 is seriously concerned at the head of steam building up in India over the deal which allowed Dow to sponsor the Olympic stadium. 'Senior sources', not just 'sources', are reported as saying the deal was a 'mistake' which it seems they are finding it difficult to wriggle out of.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Tue, 18/10/2011 - 02:03.
Article | Contamination | Corruption & Ethics | Health | Human Rights | London 2012 | Sponsors
Cisco 2012: Sponsoring Oppression
Another friend of the Olympics, 2012 Official Network Infrastructure partner Cisco joins the list of corporate dishonour, the murderous, the destructive, the obscene and the toxic. Cisco is being sued by three named Chinese political prisoners, Du Daobin, Zhou Yuanzhi, Liu Xianbin, and ten unnamed others and in a second case by the Human Rights Law Foundation. The prisoners' lawyer, Daniel Ward, said "Cisco has, for years now, knowingly aided and abetted the Chinese Communist Party's ongoing efforts to stifle the free speech and discourse of its citizenry."
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Tue, 27/09/2011 - 03:59.
Blog | 2012 Business | Corruption & Ethics | Human Rights | London 2012 | Sponsors
Sochi's mega event: Eviction
The grim tale of Olympic evictions continues at Sochi. The IOC has praised Sochi’s preparations. Jean-Claude Killy said “We have organised Olympic Games all over the world – Norway, Japan, Italy… But I have never seen anything like what I saw in Sochi. I believe that after the Olympics, Sochi’s former history will seem pre-history. The city will turn into one of the world’s best resorts.”
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Sat, 10/09/2011 - 23:59.
Article | Displacement | Human Rights | IOC | Mega Events | Sochi 2014
