The report “Red Card: Exploitation of Construction Workers on World Cup Sites in Russia,” documents how workers on six World Cup stadium construction sites faced unpaid wages either in full or part, several months’ delays in payment of wages, work in temperatures as cold as -25 degrees Celsius without sufficient protections, and employers’ failure to provide work contracts required for legal employment.

This article focuses on elite sport in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, from historical and current perspectives. It tries to answer the questions of how well the three nations perform, both globally and among each other when it comes to elite sport and why they have chosen three different elite sport models.

The purpose of this white paper is to analyse data from UN and ILO public sources on human rights and labour standards and assess the extent to which these sources can serve as a basis for preparing “country human rights briefs” on mega-sporting event candidate and host cities/countries. These sources, endorsed by the vast majority of countries, are envisaged as a credible starting point for assessing levels of human rights risks in a country context.

This White Paper focuses primarily upon the responsibilities of awarding bodies to respect human rights, and begins to explore the governance and management systems that may be needed to meet that responsibility.

As corruption, cronyism, and conflicts of interest can impact any aspect of the delivery of a mega-sporting event (MSE) with regard to human rights over the entire life cycle, anti-corruption measures need to be integrated across all the respective thematic areas examined in this series of White Papers, with a particular focus on Sports Governing Bodies and Host Actors. This White Paper gives an overview on the most frequent corruption risks linked to MSEs that might be important for the discussion within the multi-stakeholder MSE Platform Steering Committee chaired by Mary Robinson.

Based on a case study from the Commonwealth Games, this paper explores the human rights duties and responsibilities of mega-sporting event (MSE) ‘Hosts’, defined as the event organising committee and their local and national government counterparts.