Human rights campaigners have met Newcastle's council leader to demand stronger action against alleged "sportswashing" by ...

Newcastle City Council leader Karen Kilgour sat down with human rights campaigners on Tuesday to discuss the North East's growing links to Saudi Arabia ...

There’s a word to describe countries notorious for human rights abuses hosting major sporting events: “sportswashing.” Host Ngofeen Mputubwele traces the history of sportswashing from the ...

Time was when sport was seen as soft power, like movies and cultural exchange programmes. Not anymore. As Miguel Delaney tells us in States of Play, the most significant recent book on sports (or ...

Since the turn of the millennium many regimes with questionable human rights records have been using sports to improve their image to the rest of the world. This process has been called ‘sportswashing ...

Irish MP Mark Ward has accused the Israeli occupation of “sportswashing” after Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv hired former Irish soccer player Robbie Keane as head coach this week. Keane, who ...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the Red Sea WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight world title boxing fight, between Oleksandr Usyk Vs Anthony Joshua, in King Abdullah Sports City Arena ...