A FORMER Olympian and head of a human rights group is asking the IOC and Tokyo Olympic organisers to investigate worker safety at venues being built for next year’s games.
Mary Harvey is the CEO of the Geneva-based Centre for Sport and Human Rights, the type of organisation that pressed Qatar to reform labour practises — particularly regarding migrant labour — for its 2022 football World Cup.
Tokyo has come under similar scrutiny since a report, The Dark Side of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, was published last month by the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) union, which also investigated Qatar conditions.
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