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 ...