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Research: The Other Side of the Medal
The research ‘The Other Side of the Medal: Major sporting events in Brazil in the web of urban planning, speculation and the right to the city” was conducted by Dawid Danilo Bartelt and published by...
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Human rights entering the FIFA Statutes
While all the attention is on the change of presidency at the head of FIFA, it is the set of reforms of the Statutes that give the framework of the urgently needed changes. The decisions adopted by the...
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Manifesto: Violence and Housing Rights in the Rio Olympics
Support for the Vila Autódromo resistance movement Terre des Hommes is among the organisations who signed the manifesto to support Vila Autodromo community in its resistance against violence and forced...
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Vila Autodromo : evictions have been intensifying
Evictions have been intensifying in Rio de Janeiro’s Vila Autodromo community as the Olympics get closer. Last week, the residents’ association was torn down along with the home of resident Heloisa...
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Street Child Congress in Rio de Janeiro
NGO’s announce partnership for the Street Child Games Congress in Rio de Janeiro. Terre des Hommes joins forces with Street Child United and Dreikönigsaktion (DKA) in order to give a platform to the...
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Play your part in demanding change
Less than one hundred days until the Olympic Games commence in Rio. With the focus of the world’s media shifting towards Brazil again, please help us highlight the human rights violations which have...
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Highlights from the UN Human Rights Council side event
Our panel at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Ana Paula Oliveira and Maria da Penha, two mothers from Rio affected by police violence and evictions linked to the FIFA World Cup and Olympic Games,...
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Mothers from Rio favelas meet the IOC
Today, Philip French, IOC public affairs and social development director, met with Maria da Penha Macena, resident of Vila Autódromo community, Ana Paula Oliveira, whose son was killed by the police...
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Rio 2016: ‘The other side of the medal’
WordPress Video Gallery Plugin Rio de Janeiro has been preparing itself for the eyes of the world ahead of next month’s Olympic Games by cleansing its streets of undesirables and demolishing entire...
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Rio protests against “The Exclusion Games”
With 30 days to go until the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, some might expect the mood to be one of excitement. But hundreds of people took to the city centre on Tuesday to protest against what they...
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Children’s rights and Rio 2016 – we take the fight to Brussels
“You hear that the Olympic Games are coming to town; something which should make you happy. Instead it destroys your home – and with it, your childhood.” The stories of Rio’s children were laid bare...
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Reporting on children safely at Rio 2016
The Olympics will soon be upon us and the eyes of the world will focus on Rio. Tales of sporting heroism are about to unfold. But just a short distance from the arenas, Rio’s children face the...
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From Damascus to Rio: Yusra flies flag for refugees
Terre des Hommes, organisers of the Children Win campaign, have welcomed a ground-breaking initiative for a refugee team to compete under the Olympic flag this summer. The value of the International...
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‘The Fighter’– Naomy’s story released for the first time
Terre des Hommes’ award-winning documentary ‘The Fighter’ has been released online for the first time. The film tells the story of teenager Naomy, who dared to resist the powerful economic and...
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Our message is getting through!
A child’s shoe is left after evictions in Rio’s Vila Autodromo (Pic: Thiago Dezan) Children Win’s quest to change the way Mega Sporting Events (MSE) are organised in the future by highlighting their...
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IOC in talks over human rights recommendations
The International Olympic Committee are in discussions with a coalition of leading sport and human rights groups about how the human rights abuses perpetrated in the build-up to the Rio Olympics can be...
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World’s media hear our IOC human rights recommendations
The world’s media gathered in Rio today to hear the Sports and Rights Alliance outline their recommendations to the IOC to prevent breaches of human rights at future Olympic Games. Since Rio was...
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Boykoff sees hope amidst Rio’s Olympic gloom
If there is one ray of hope amidst Rio’s suffering in the build-up to the Olympic Games, it is the wider global awareness of the savage effects Mega Sporting Events can have on host populations. The...
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Experts warn of dire Olympic legacy for Rio’s children
Pic: Pim Ras / Terre des Hommes Two experts have issued urgent warnings about the impact of the Olympic Games on Rio’s most vulnerable children. Researchers Dr Andrea Rodriguez and Professor Lorraine...
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Rio’s child rights abuses make global headlines
The people of Rio whose lives have been blighted by the Olympic Games have had their voices heard around the world following our joint press conference with Amnesty International. Three days before...
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