Olympic games human right

The IOC is taking action at three main levels to improve the promotion of and respect for human rights, and to deliver on its human rights responsibilities. Strengthening our human rights approach across our organisation in a comprehensive way. Upholding human rights across the lifecycle of the Olympic Games. Additional action will be taken in the short term to complete the development of an IOC human rights strategy and policy commitment, and an amendment to the Olympic Charter will be considered.

Further work will look, among other things, at further embedding human rights in the good governance principles, and the establishment of the previously announced Human Rights Advisory Committee. IOC moves forward with its human rights approach. But when it comes to the hypocrisy Olympics, the International Olympic Committee takes the gold. The IOC trumpets its high-level political negotiations with the Taliban to secure safe passage for Afghan athletes.

This human-rights dreamscape never arrived. Peng later retracted her allegations under suspicious conditions. The Beijing Olympics are about so much more than sport. The US diplomatic boycott arrives amid escalating tensions between China and numerous western nations. In the US, China has become a bi-partisan punching bag, with politicians on both sides of the aisle making evidence-free claims that would make McCarthy blush.