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2 Jan 2020

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ACAT-France, ALQST, ADHRB, Article 19, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPI), European Centre for Democracy and Human Rights, Front Line Defenders, Human Rights Watch, ISHR, MENA Rights Group, RSF, Transparency International (Germany)

Letter: Amaury Sport Organisation and the Adoption of a Human Rights Policy

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We are writing to ask Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O) to adopt a human rights policy to abide by existing international human rights norms and standards...

the signatory organizations have documented the increasingly repressive rights climate in Saudi Arabia. Since Mohammed bin Salman was appointed Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia in June 2017, there have been new, ongoing, arbitrary and abusive practices by Saudi authorities...

The implementation of human rights into your organization could affect millions of people in the A.S.O sports and media ecosystem... The ability of civil society to operate where A.S.O holds events is essential to upholding your company’s credibility and avoiding any contribution or linkage to human rights violations.