Safety

  • Photo: Gabriel Cabral/Flickr
    15.08.2016 /
    With all eyes on the Olympic events in Rio, Reporters Without Borders launch campaign aiming to inform the international community about the dangers Brazilian journalists experience along their work.
  • 21.02.2014 /
    Qatar will have to face the critique of the working conditions under which many foreigners work in the country. This could bring out discussions about the very nature of Qatari politics and society, James M. Dorsey reports.
  • Foto: Amy Sept/Flickr
    By Andreas Selliaas
    30.01.2014 /
    Miles of chain link fences, Level 1 event eligible for assistance from the Department of Homeland Security and federal agencies, metal detectors, x-ray machines, radiation detectors, no-fly zones, Special Forces, air defence missiles, snipers, equipment to detect radioactive, biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and field hospital to take care of the potential victims of a terrorist attack.
  • By Laura Robinson
    23.03.2012 /
    Another professional skier died this month, and little is being done to make the sport safer. Canadian author and journalist, Laura Robinson, comments on sports officials' tendencies to put the fight for new viewers by making the sports more dangerous and exciting above the safety of the athletes.
  • By Andreas Selliaas
    11.08.2011 /
    Comment: While trying to control the riots in London, London Mayor Boris Johnson must also ensure that the riots will not affect the London Olympcs and that they do not happen again in July 2012.
  • 15.06.2010 /
    Strikes by security and transportation workers have affected several matches in the first week of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
  • 05.01.2008 /
    A list compiled by Play the Game over journalists who have been assaulted, killed or endured legal actions for their reporting on sport clearly show that safety is an issue for sports journalists too as the many stakeholders in sport threaten journalists and freedom of expression in different ways.
  • 10.08.2007 /
    Football is unsafe in the FIFA senior vice-president’s country. Violence seems unstoppable in Argentina’s most popular sport and the latest fight took a victim outside a stadium, when a local supporter killed a visiting fan, smashing a stone into his head. So, the solution for Argentina’s football madness is… get rid of visiting supporters.

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