Abstract
Over the years, ‘Mega-Sporting Events’ (MSE) increasingly have been facing public indignation caused by MSE-linked human rights violations in hosting countries and accusations of corruption in the bidding processes. These negative implications have affected the legitimacy and reputation of MSE and led, besides other Sports Governing Bodies, the Fédération de Football Association (FIFA) to integrate human rights into their statues and internal policies and to adopt new, human rights-sensitive, Bidding Regulations. This paper evaluates whether the required human rights impact assessment (HRIA), required under the new Bidding Regulations, can be a ‘game changer’ for the protection of human rights in the context of MSE. Therefore, the article will first identify the new requirements as result of the recent MSE and human rights discourse and embed FIFA’s approach in the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) Framework. The paper will then identify standards and best practice examples for HRIA under the UNGP Framework, which serve as benchmarks for the evaluation of the approach taken by FIFA and its implementation by the submitted Bid Books. While parts of the framework for the HRIA established by FIFA are quite progressive, other parts do not qualify for ‘playing in the premier league’. Areas of concern are the meaningful engagement of stakeholders, monitoring as well as aspects of transparency. Therefore, the paper suggests to mandate a multi-stakeholder entity to develop the human rights strategy, to conduct the HRIA and to monitor the human rights performance, as well as to implement of a fixed human rights evaluation matrix.
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According to Grell (2018).
HRC, Seventeenth Session ‘Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie; Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights : Implementing the United Nations ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy‘Framework’, 21 March 2011, A/HRC/17/31. http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Business/A-HRC-17-31_AEV.pdf. 07 June 2018.
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The term is used to refer to business entities operating in more than one country with operational separated units which coordinate their activities in the absence of effective control by domestic or international law.
Alston P and Goodman R (2013), p. 1463.
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Nowak and Januszewski (2015), pp. 113–115.
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Bonnitcha J and McCorquodale R (2017), pp. 904–905.
Nolan (n.14), p. 10; Bonnitcha J and McCorquodale R (n. 20), p. 905; Nowak M and Januszewski K (n.18), p. 142.
Nowak M and Januszewski K (n.18), p. 116.
Nowak M and Januszewski K (n.18), pp. 119–123.
Nowak M and Januszewski K (n.18), pp. 115–116.
Nolan (n.14), p. 6 f.
The last attempt was undertaken by the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights ECOSOC, Fifty-Third Session ‘Report of the sessional working group on the working methods and activities of transnational corporations on its third session’, 14 August 2001, UN Doc E/CN.4/Sub.2/2001/9, para 53. https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G01/153/64/PDF/G0115364.pdf?OpenElement. Accessed 19 July 2019; while there are ongoing negotiations of the open-ended working group, established by HRC, Twenty-Sixth Session ‘Elaboration of an international legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, 14 July 2014, UN Doc A/HRC/RES/26/9. https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G14/082/52/PDF/G1408252.pdf?OpenElement. Accessed 19 July 2019; latest report HRC, Thirty-Seventh Session 26 February–23 March 2018, Report on the third session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, 24 January 2018, UN Doc A/HRC/37/67. https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G18/017/50/PDF/G1801750.pdf?OpenElement. Accessed 19 July 2019.
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Baughen (2015), pp. 212–225.
Alston P and Goodman R (n 15), pp. 1468–1471.
Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights, UN Doc E/CN.4/Sub.2/2003/12/Rev.2 (2003). https://undocs.org/en/E/CN.4/Sub.2/2003/12/Rev.2. Accessed 11 June 2019.
Spiesshofer (2018), p. 40, Baughen (n. 30), p. 226.
Wouters and Chané (2015), p. 238.
Spiesshofer (n. 33), p. 40.
UNCHR Res 69 (2005) UN Doc E/CN.4/RES/2005/65, para 1.
UNCHR, Sixty-Second Session ‘Interim report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises’, 22 February 2006, UN Doc E/CN.4/2006/97, paras 59-69.
Alston P and Goodman R (n.15), p. 1478.
Addo M (2014), p. 135.
n. 6.
Business entities are still bound by national laws, which can also impose human rights obligations like the French Law on the Corporate Duty of Vigilance, Loi no. 2017-399, 27 March 2017. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/loi/2017/3/27/ECFX1509096L/jo/texte. Accessed 5 June 2019.
Bonnitcha J and McCorquodale R (n. 20), p. 900.
UNGP 15.
UNHRC, Protect, Respect and Remedy: a Framework for Business and Human Rights, ‘Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie’, 7 April 2008, UN Doc a/HRC/8/5, para 56.
Baughen (n. 30), p. 235; Spiesshofer (n. 33), p. 79.
Spiesshofer (n. 33), p. 78.
UNHRC (n. 44), para 58.
Baughen (n. 30), p. 236.
Bonnitcha J and McCorquodale R (n. 20), p. 909.
Bonnitcha J and McCorquodale R (n. 20), p. 912.
Summerer T, 2. Teil. Sport, Vereine und Verbände. In: Fritzweiler J, et al., (eds.), Praxishandbuch Sportrecht (n.7), para 33; Pfister B, 6. Teil. Internationales Sportrecht. In: Fritzweiler J, et al., (eds.), Praxishandbuch Sportrecht (n. 7) fn. 14; Mega-Sporting Events Platform for Human Rights, Sports Governing Bodies and Human Rights Due Diligence (Sporting Chance White Paper 1.2, Version 1), 1 January 2017, p. 8. https://www.ihrb.org/uploads/reports/MSE_Platform%2C_Sports_Governing_Bodies_and_Human_Rights_Due_Diligence%2C_Jan_2017.pdf. Accessed 17 June 2019.
For SGBs firstly recognised in Case 36/74 Walrave and Koch v Association Union Cyliste Internationale, KONINKLIJKE Nederlandsche Wielren UNIE,. Federacion ESPAŇOLA Ciclismo [1974] ECR 01405; Case 73/76 Doná v Mantero [1976] ECR 1333; Case C-176/96 Lehtonen and Castors Canada Dry Namur-Braine ASBL v Fédération royale belge des sociétés de basket-ball ASBL (FRBSB) [2000] ECR I-2681; Case 415/93; Union royale belge des sociétés de football association ASBL v Bosman, Royal club liégeois SA v Bosman and others and Union des associations européennes de football (UEFA) v Bosman [1995] I-4921; Case C-519/04 P Meca-Medina and Majcen v Commission of the European Communities [2006] ECR I-06991.
National Contact Point of Switzerland, Initial Assessment: Specific Instance regarding the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) submitted by the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI), 13 October 2015; p. 6. https://www.seco.admin.ch/seco/de/home/Aussenwirtschaftspolitik_Wirtschaftliche_Zusammenarbeit/Wirtschaftsbeziehungen/NKP/Statements_zu_konkreten_Faellen.html. Accessed 19 July 2019; National Contact Point of Switzerland, Initial Assessment: Specific Instance regarding the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) submitted by Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), 17 August 2016, p. 4. https://www.seco.admin.ch/seco/de/home/Aussenwirtschaftspolitik_Wirtschaftliche_Zusammenarbeit/Wirtschaftsbeziehungen/NKP/Statements_zu_konkreten_Faellen.html. Accessed 19 July 2019.
A similar approach was taken in the assessment concerning the World Wide Fund for Nature International - National Contact Point of Switzerland, Initial Assessment: Specific Instance regarding the World Wide Fund for Nature International (WWF) submitted by Survival International Charitable Trust, 20 December 2016, p. 7.
National Contact Point of Switzerland, Initial Assessment: Specific Instance regarding the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) submitted by the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI), 13 October 2015; p. 6. https://www.seco.admin.ch/seco/de/home/Aussenwirtschaftspolitik_Wirtschaftliche_Zusammenarbeit/Wirtschaftsbeziehungen/NKP/Statements_zu_konkreten_Faellen.html. Accessed 19 July 2019.
National Contact Point of Switzerland, Final Statement: Specific Instance regarding the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) submitted by the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI), 02 May 2017, p. 3. https://www.seco.admin.ch/seco/de/home/Aussenwirtschaftspolitik_Wirtschaftliche_Zusammenarbeit/Wirtschaftsbeziehungen/NKP/Statements_zu_konkreten_Faellen.html. Accessed 19 July 2019.
Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v Uruguay) [2010] ICJ Reports p. 14.
Ibid., p. 83 para 204.
MacNaughton (n.58), pp. 64–65.
The Danish Institute for Human Rights, Human Rights Impact Assessment – Guidance and Toolbox, 2016, p. 6, 15 f. https://www.humanrights.dk/sites/humanrights.dk/files/media/dokumenter/business/hria_toolbox/hria_guidance_and_toolbox_final_may22016.pdf_223795_1_1.pdf. Accessed 19 July 2019.
Spiesshofer (2018), p. 86.
Harrison (2011), p. 172.
BSR (n.64), p. 8.
Harrison (n.65), p. 172-178.
IAIA (2017).
It is important at this point to mention that the following identified standards concern stand-alone HRIAs.
Salcito et al. (n.58), p. 3; Harrison (n.65), p. 173; The Danish Institute for Human Rights (n.62), p. 40.
The Danish Institute for Human Rights (n.62), p. 9.
UDHR, ICESCR, ICCPR.
Minimum standard as required by Principle 13 UNGP.
World Bank and Nordic Trust Fund (2013), p. 14; The Danish Institute for Human Rights (n.62), p. 24.
The Danish Institute for Human Rights (n.62), p. 41.
World Bank and Nordic Trust Fund (n.74), p. 23.
Harrison and Stephenson (2010), p. 45.
Salcito et al. (n.58), p. 4; to establish a scoring system is also vital for evidence collection.
The Danish Institute for Human Rights (n.62), p. 35.
World Bank and Nordic Trust Fund (n.74), pp. xi, 24.
Harrison (n.65), p. 174.
OHCHR (2012).
Ibid. 51–64; World Bank and Nordic Trust Fund (n.74), p. 24; Harrison (n.65), p. 175.
OHCHR (n.82), p. 52.
Harrison and Stephenson (n.77), p. 51.
See, for example, Harrison (2013), pp. 109, 112 f.; World Bank, Nordic Trust Fund (n.74), p. xi.
HRC (2007), p. 4; MacNaughton (n.58), p. 65 with reference to IAIA, What is Impact Assessment?, October 2009. http://iaia.org/uploads/pdf/What_is_IA_web.pdf. Accessed 19 July 2019; Harrison (n.86), p. 110.
Some scholars and guidelines use instead of stakeholder the term rightsholder; see, for example, Kemp and Vanclay (2013), p. 91; This is not only a difference in terminology but a different approach, since rightsholder is a much narrower concept than stakeholder. For a meaningful HRIA, it is crucial that both groups, rights holders and stakeholders, are effectively involved, The Danish Institute for Human Rights (n.62), p. 10.
Harrison (n.86), p. 114.
Croal et al. (2012), p. 3.
Exceptions occur when indigenous people are involved, see Croal (n.90).
On Common Ground Consultants Inc., Human Rights Assessment of Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine, May 2010, p. 8. http://www.hria-guatemala.com/en/docs/Human%20Rights/OCG_HRA_Marlin_Mine_May_17.pdf. Accessed 19 July 2019.
Harrison and Stephenson (n.77), p. 52.
BSR (n.64), p. 15; Harrison and Stephenson (n.77), p. 56.
Harrison (n.65), p. 179.
The only reasonable exception could be that the publication would endanger the enjoyment of human rights by assessors, rightholders or other stakeholders; see González, Evaluating the Human Rights Impact of Investment Projects – Background, Best Practices, and Opportunities, PODER, 2014, p. 54. https://www.projectpoder.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/PODER-HRIA-Best-Practices-Dec-2014.pdf. Accessed 19 July 2019.
The Danish Institute for Human Rights (n.62), p. 84.
Harrison and Stephenson (n.77), p. 55.
World Bank and Nordic Trust Fund (n.74), p. 29.
World Bank and Nordic Trust Fund (n.74), p. 29.
González (n.96), p. 80.
González (n.96), p. 80.
The Danish Institute for Human Rights (n.62), p. 10.
Which would require an expansion of the mandate of the Working Group see Harrison (n.86), p. 115.
UNICEF et al. (2007), p. 4.
Ibid., p. 10.
Krieger and Ribar (2008), p. 8.
Ibid., p. 9.
Ibid.
UNICEF et al. (n.105).
Harrison and Stephenson (n.77), p. 44.
Privalova Krieger and Rubar (2008), p. 96.
Harrison and Stephenson (n.77), p. 48.
UNICEF et al. (n.105), p. 11.
UNICEF et al. (n.105), p. 27.
Ibid.
McGill research Group Investigating Canadian Mining in Latin America, Marline Mine. http://micla.ca/conflicts/marlin-mine-2/. Accessed 30 May 2018.
Ibid.
On Common Ground Consultants Inc., (n.92), p. 8.
Memorandum of Understanding Between Goldcorp Inc. and the Shareholder Group, 19 March 2008. http://hria-guatemala.com/en/docs/Steering%20Committee/Memorandum_of_Understanding_03_19_08.pdf. Accessed 19 July 2019.
OXFAM America (2015), p. 24.
Boele and Crispin (2013), p. 129; Harrison (n.86), p. 115; The Danish Institute for Human Rights (n.62), pp 48, 87.
Memorandum of Understanding between Goldcorp Inc. and the Shareholder Group, (n.120) 1.
www.hria-guatemala.com. Accessed 19 July 2019.
Steering Committee (2008a).
Steering Committee (2008b).
Steering Committee (2008c).
Only the Steering Committee was competent to declare some factual information as confidential, On Common Ground Consultants Inc. (n.92), p. 12.
OXFAM America (n.121), p. 26.
On Common Ground Consultants Inc. (n.92), p. 13 f.
Ibid., p. 18.
Nestlé, Addressing human rights impacts - Our commitment: Assess and address human rights impacts across our business activities. https://www.nestle.com/csv/impact/respecting-human-rights/human-rights-impacts. Accessed 4/23/2018.
The Danish Institute for Human Rights, Nestlé Partnership. https://www.humanrights.dk/projects/nestle-partnership. Accessed 19 July 2019.
Foreword by Allan Lerberg Jorgensen in Bansal and Wyss (n.134), p. 6.
Bansal and Wyss (n.134).
CHRB (2017), p. 11.
Bansal and Wyss (n.134), p. 22.
Established for example in the HRIA at Nestlé Nigeria addressing the Nestlé Flowergate factory, Bansal and Wyss (n.134), p. 33.
Bansal and Wyss (n.134).
Bansal and Wyss (n.134) 35.
Spiesshöfer (n. 33), p. 86.
Alston P and Goodman R (n. 15), p. 1464.
Mega-Sporting Events Platform for Human Rights, Host Actors and Human Rights Due Diligence in the Sports Context (Sporting Chance White Paper 2.1, Version 1), 1 January 2017, p. 23. https://www.ihrb.org/uploads/reports/MSE_Platform%2C_Host_Actors_and_Human_Rights_Due_Diligence_in_the_Sports_Context%2C_Jan_2017.pdf. Accessed 17 June 2019.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup final was followed by 619,7 million people, and the overall coverage of the World Cup reached 3.2 billion people, 46.4% of the world’s population. http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2011/m=7/news=almost-half-the-world-tuned-home-watch-2010-fifa-world-cup-south-africat-1473143.html. Accessed 19 July 2019.
FIFA (2017b).
FIFA (2017c).
Grell (n.5); FIFA, Guide to the bidding process of the 2026 FIFA World Cup (n.147), p. 7.
FIFA, Bidding registration regarding the submission of Bids for the hosting and staging of the 2026 FIFA World Cup™, p. 26. http://resources.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/administration/02/91/85/50/biddingregistration_neutral.pdf. Accessed 19 July 2019.
Generally, the determination to strive for good governance is reflected inter alia in the installation of a Audit and Compliance Committee by Art. 51 FIFA Statutes (April 2016), even though at the beginning these reforms faced certain obstacles O. Gibson, FIFA’s independent audit committee chairman resigns in protest at reforms, The Guardian, 14 May 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/may/14/domenico-scala-fifa-auditor-resigns-protest. Accessed 19 July 2019.
FIFA, Bidding registration regarding the submission of Bids for the hosting and staging of the 2026 FIFA World Cup (n.151), p. 18.
FIFA (2017d).
FIFA, Bidding registration regarding the submission of Bids for the hosting and staging of the 2026 FIFA World Cup (n.151), p. 26.
FIFA, Guide to the bidding process of the 2026 FIFA World Cup (n.147), p. 10.
Art. 3 ‘FIFA is committed to respecting all internationally recognised human rights and shall strive to promote the protection of these rights’; Art. 4 ‘Discrimination of any kind against a country, private person or group of people on account of race, skin colour, ethnic, national or social origin, gender, disability, language, religion, political opinion or any other opinion, wealth, birth or any other status, sexual orientation or any other reason is strictly prohibited and punishable by suspension or expulsion’, FIFA Statutes (April 2016).
FIFA, Bidding registration regarding the submission of Bids for the hosting and staging of the 2026 FIFA World Cup (n.151), p 43.
FIFA, Guide to the bidding process of the 2026 FIFA World Cup (n.147), p. 10.
Grell (n.5); Guide to the bidding process of the 2026 FIFA World Cup (n.147), p. 32; See FIFA, Structure, Content, Presentation, Format and Delivery of Bid for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Sect. 23 i) a) and b) p. 26 f. http://resources.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/administration/02/91/61/10/structure.content.and.format.of.bid_neutral.pdf. Accessed 19 July 2019.
FIFA, Structure, Content, Presentation, Format and Delivery of Bid for the 2026 FIFA World Cup (n.160).
Ibid.
OHCHR (2011).
FIFA, Structure, Content, Presentation, Fromat and Delivery of Bid for the 2026 FIFA World Cup (n.160), p. 26.
Human Rights Council A/HRC/4/23/Add.2 (2007) Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, para 60.
OHCHR, Guiding Principles on Business and Human Right (n.163), Commentary Principle 31.
Moroccan Football Association and a Joint submission by the Canadian Soccer Association (2018).
John Ruggie (2016), p. 34 Recommendation. 5.1.
See FIFA, Structure, Content, Presentation, Format and Delivery of Bid for the 2026 FIFA World Cup (n.160), p. 27.
See above 3.2.2.1.
Bidding Nation Morocco. https://www.marocco26.com; United 2026.https://www.united2026.com. Accessed 30 May 2018.
United 2026 (2018a).
Bidding Nation Morocco, Submission by the Moroccan Football Association, 26 March 2018. https://www.morocco26.com/#Press/2. Accessed 30 Mai 2018.
FIFA, Official Documents. http://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/official-documents/index.html. Accessed 19 July 2019.
Royal Moroccan Football Federation, Bidding Nation Morocco – Bid Book, March 2018, p. 357. http://resources.fifa.com/image/upload/morocco-2026-bid-book.pdf?cloudid=weegrtyecqg3hjw8hmmr. Accessed 19 July 2019.
Ibid., p. 364.
Ibid., p. 352.
Ibid., pp. 349, 369.
Ibid., p. 366 f.
For example, the Commitment with regard to Human Rights signed by the FRMF-President in Royal Moroccan Football Federation, Bidding Nation Morocco –Bid Book (n.175), p. 363.
And therefore will timely and completely report on plans and decisions United 2026, Bid Book, March 2018, p. 448. http://resources.fifa.com/image/upload/united-2026-bid-book.pdf?cloudid=w3yjeu7dadt5erw26wmu. Accessed 19 July 2019.
Ibid., p. 357.
United provided a list with possible host cities exceeding the required number of cities United 2026 (2018c), p. 7.
Developed by Human Rights Campaign for examining the inclusiveness of policies, laws and services of LGBTQ. http://www.hrc.org/mei. Accessed 19 July 2019.
Ruggie addressed the issue of clear guidance of the Bidding Associations in its study for FIFA, Ruggie (n.168), p. 32.
See FIFA, Structure, Content, Presentation, Format and Delivery of Bid for the 2026 FIFA World Cup (n.160), p. 27.
AccountAbility, AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard, 2015, p. 1. https://www.accountability.org/standards/. Accessed 19 July 2019.
Royal Moroccan Football Federation (n.175), p. 354.
Ibid., p. 365.
Ibid., p. 353.
United 2026 (2018b), pp. 460 ff.
United consulted four government agencies, 28 NGOs, five Universities and a variety of local NGOs see United 2026, Proposal for a United Human Rights strategy (n.183), pp. 80 ff.
United 2026, Canada, Mexico, and the United States - United Bid to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup (n.191), p. 462.
Ruggie (n.168), p. 21 f.
See Ibid p. 32. Recommendation 4.1.
3.1.3.1.
Mega-Sporting Events Platform for Human Rights, Championing Human Rights in the Governance of Sport Bodies, March 2018, p. 17.
FIFA, Regulations for the Selection of the venue for the final competition of the 2016 FIFA World Cup (n.148), Regulation 3.1.
Ibid., Regulation 4.1.
Described above 4.2.
As recommended by Ruggie in Ruggie (n.168), p. 30 Recommendation 2.4.
The scoring system applies at the moment only to technical and financial aspects of the bid.
https://www.corporatebenchmark.org/. Accessed 19 July 2019.
Illustrating some of the critism Harrison and Sekalala (2015), p. 931.
3.1.2.
FIFA, Regulations for the Selection of the venue for the final competition of the 2016 FIFA World Cup (n.148), Regulation 3.5 subsection 1.
For example the assessment of EPO’s Operations in Liberia mandated to Triponel Consulting Ltd., Triponel Consulting Ltd., Assessing Human Rights Impacts at Epo’s Liberian Operations, 26 July 2017. http://www.epoil.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/humanrightsimpactassessment-executivesummary2017.pdf. Accessed 19 July 2019; On Common Ground Consultants Inc. (n.92).
FIFA, Structure, Content, Presentation, Format and Delivery of Bid for the 2026 FIFA World Cup (n.160), p. 26 f.
United 2026, Proposal for a United Human Rights strategy (n.183), p. 20.
Ibid.
United 2026, Canada, Mexico, and the United States - United Bid to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup (n.191), p. 460.
Royal Moroccan Football Federation, Bidding Nation Morocco –Bid Book (n.175), p. 369.
Royal Moroccan Football Federation, Human Rights Strategy in connection with the 2026 FIFA World Cup™, p. 16.
As proposed by Harrison (n.86), p. 115.
FIFA, BID EVALUATION REPORT – 2026 FIFA WORLD CUP™, p. 109. https://resources.fifa.com/image/upload/bid-evaluation-report-2026-fifa-world-cuptm.pdf?cloudid=ir3g14juxglqbbteevvf. Accessed 19 July 2019.
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Kirschner, F. Breakthrough or much ado about nothing? FIFA’s new bidding process in the light of best practice examples of human rights assessments under UNGP Framework. Int Sports Law J 19, 133–153 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40318-019-00156-5
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