Document Type
Article
Disciplines
International Law
Abstract
We are living in an enormously important moment when it comes to the relationship between the Olympics Games and human rights. It's a particularly opportune time to peer behind the shiny scrim of the Olympics and seriously scrutinize the effects that staging the Games has on host cities. The frame of human rights helps us see the Olympics-and its current problems-with greater clarity. At the same time, the Olympics provide a powerful lens to think through the limitations of human-rights discourse as well as the all-toocommon chasm between discourse and deed.
Recommended Citation
Boykoff, Jules, "The Political History of the Olympics and the Human Rights Thicket" (2019). Connecticut Journal of International Law. 611.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/cjil/611
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