Migrant workers in Qatar's construction sector are exposed to routine abuse and exploitation, argues a new report from Amnesty International released yesterday, which calls on FIFA to address the issue.

In just 12 weeks, the opening ceremony for the Sochi Olympics will bid athletes and fans from all around the world welcome to the most expensive Olympic Games ever.

Cricket is one of the fastest growing sports in the world, but according to a new report from Transparency International, the international governing body of cricket, the International Cricket Council (ICC) must act now and strengthen the governance of the sport in order to keep up to speed with these developments.

Presentations from this year’s Play the Game conference, which took place on 28-31 October in Aarhus, Denmark, are now available as podcast on the conference website.

The fourth World Conference on Doping in Sport concluded today by the adoption of the revised 2015 World Anti-Doping Code.

Switzerland is the centre of international sports organisations, and now a new report from Swiss based research consultancy Rütter+Partner claims that the organisations produce substantial economic effects for the Swiss economy.

International sport is facing new power structures, but also a huge task in making sport and physical activity more inclusive. At the closing session of Play the Game 2013, four speakers mapped some of sport’s urgent challenges without reaching a clear consensus on how to assess and deal with them.

A wish to promote democratic values in sport has ostensibly been a main driving force behind a new Global Sports Political Power Index from the National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark.