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The Japan Sports Agency (JSA) recently released its Guidelines for Evaluating and Improving Safety Measures in Physical Activity and Sports (Trial Version).
After documented suffering by Japanese athletes and insufficient mechanisms to report abuse, the government’s efforts to end mistreatment in sports are a positive step. However, effective implementation is crucial. |
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Every day, food-delivery workers cross Paris and Bordeaux in all weather, working long hours for pay well below France’s minimum wage. For most, this work provides their only source of income.
A new survey of around 1,000 workers in France who deliver food for companies such as Uber Eats and Deliveroo describes the consequences of platform or “gig” work. The findings mirror what Human Rights Watch has documented in the United States, including in a survey of 127 platform workers in the state of Texas. |
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World Cup city host committees and FIFA have fallen short on the steps needed to protect players and fans, Human Rights Watch said earlier this month, with the tournament two months away.
“Despite years to prepare, the specter of immigration enforcement at FIFA events, and emerging threats to media freedom, host committees have failed to deliver coherent plans for the world’s largest sporting event,” said Minky Worden, director of global initiatives at Human Rights Watch. “FIFA and these cities need to act immediately to strengthen human rights protections or risk a tournament defined by exclusion and fear.” |
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A 32-year-old man who was forcibly disappeared in Bahrain on March 19, 2026, died in custody more than a week later and his body bore signs of torture, Human Rights Watch and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) said earlier this month.
“That Almosawi’s death came at the hands of the authorities, and in such a brutal way, makes this all the more horrific. Bahraini authorities should ensure that this never happens again," said Niku Jafarnia, Yemen and Bahrain researcher at Human Rights Watch. |
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When Maung and his family, his neighbors, strangers, cross the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh, they are officially refugees. But there’s no rest for the weary, and the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees escaping to Bangladesh have to build a refugee camp for themselves.
This week, Maung, other refugees and experts take listeners through a tour of life in the world’s largest refugee camp and life as a refugee more broadly. |
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Top Image: Photo montage of the Tokyo Olympic Stadium and youth in Japan training and playing popular sports. © 2019 imagenavi/Aflo; 2005 Doable/a.collectionRF/amanaimages; 2020 Human Rights Watch; 2015 Satoru Kobayashi/a.collectionRF/amanaimages; 2016 RYO/amanaimages; Trevor Williams/Getty Images; 2020 Human Rights Watch; 2016 Matsuo/Aflo; AdobeStock
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