Description du projet
Les grands événements sportifs face aux droits de l’homme
Les événements sportifs mondiaux ou de grande envergure tels que les Jeux olympiques ont fait l’objet de préoccupations en matière de droits de l’homme: expulsions forcées, censure des médias, abus du travail des migrants et répression politique. Dans ce contexte, le projet EventRights, financé par l’UE, se concentrera sur la manière de renverser cette tendance afin que les méga-événements sportifs puissent avoir un impact positif sur des aspects sociaux plus larges, tels que l’autonomisation des groupes défavorisés et l’apport d’un changement social positif durable en matière de droits de l’homme. Plus précisément, le projet EventRights formulera des recommandations sur la manière d’améliorer le paysage des méga-événements sportifs afin de garantir qu’un agenda axé sur les droits soit respecté dans la planification, la livraison et la continuité des événements.
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Major sporting events (MSEs) have been the subject of increasing levels of critique in recent years for the social costs associated with their bidding, planning and delivery. The rationale used by cities and countries for hosting MSEs is often the potential for an event to generate positive economic and social transformation within the host area (Brittain, Bocarro, Byers and Swart, 2017). However, research has repeatedly demonstrated actual impacts of hosting MSEs fall short of these lofty claims and in reality often result in detrimental effects for host populations. The negative impacts of MSEs have variously been reported as: exacerbating human rights abuses; facilitating corruption; supporting elite beneficiaries over those most in need; and transforming host destinations’ urban environment by displacing vulnerable populations. Recent mega sport events (a specific category of the largest MSEs, such as the Olympic Games and World Cup; Muller, 2015) have been the subject of international condemnation for being the catalyst for forced evictions (Beijing 2008; Rio de Janeiro, 2016), restricting media freedom through censorship (Sochi, 2014), abuse of migrant labour in the construction of facilities (Sochi, 2014; Qatar, 2022) and increased political repression (Beijing, 2008). Human Rights Watch has suggested that “Time after time, Olympic hosts have gotten away with abusing workers building stadiums, and with crushing critics and media who try to report about abuses…the right to host the Olympics needs to come with the responsibility not to abuse basic human rights” (Minky Worden, Director of Global Initiatives, HRW). The EventRights project will explore and produce recommendations as to how MSEs can influence MSE organizing committees and other stakeholders to ensure that progressive social opportunities to address inequality, enhance diversity and facilitate greater dialogue are enshrined in the planning, delivery and legacy plans for the events themselves.
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