World Cup Human Rights

Exciting news from Russia and its utterly incorruptible sports minister Vitaly Mutko - the mascot for Russia 2018 will be announced later t...

Here are some extracts from a speech given last week by Russian human rights lawyer Galina Arapova , who was in Washington DC accepting the...

Russian opposition politician Wladimir Kara-Musra , who last year survived an assassination attempt by poison, is interviewed in today'...

An article in the increasingly daring Doha News  has highlighted the problem of dissent in Qatar. Lawyer Kristen Jarvis Johnson , a former ...

Don't like your showings in the polls? In a democracy, you have to suck it up and up your game. In Russia, you can just force the polls...

Ask an American sports fan why the US national anthem is played before every single sporting event, and you will not receive a satisfactory...

The founder of the modern Olympics, Baron de Coubertin , believed that physical education was a key factor to moral education. The three pil...

In less than two years Russia will host the 2018 Fifa World Cup . In less than a year it will host the 2017 Fifa Confederations Cup . In le...

Remember when banned ex-Fifa President Sepp Blatter was first asked about Qatar's ban on homosexuality, and how that would affect gay ...

The Race Against the Stasi: The Incredible Story of Dieter Wiedemann, the Iron Curtain and the Greatest Cycling Race on Earth by Herbi...

"This was a very important day for us. I would like to congratulate all the athletes and sports fans." The joys of sport in a t...

A future multi-coloured Qatar (image: equaldex.com) A tiny drop of coloured paint on the black wall of Qatar's draconian attitude ...

Flags and borders - what are they good for? "Nation states are the result of wars, intrigues, marriage, propaganda, blackmail, lie...

Infantino in Russia: "Everything's great!" Picture: Fifa.com News reports that Fifa President Gianni Infantino has been ...

Essential reading matter  for the next fortnight. Brazil's Dance With the Devil - updated Olympic edition , by Dave Zirin ( Hayma...