Paralympic Games
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics are a periodic series of international multi-sport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities, including impaired muscle power (e.g. paraplegia and quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, post-polio syndrome, spina bifida), impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency (e.g. amputation or dysmelia), leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, are held almost immediately following the respective Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The Paralympics has grown from …
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Amnesty International · 16 July 2024 English
January Norway: Over the last few years, Norway has endured criticism from international human rights bodies for its treatment of people in prison with mental health problems. Isolation is widely …
discriminatory double standards ahead of Olympic and Paralympic Games “Excellence, respect, friendship”: Why hijab …
Amnesty International · 15 July 2024 English
At the 2024 Olympic Games, the host country France has banned Muslim women from wearing a sports hijab or any other form of religious headgear when they compete for France. …
France, the host of the XXXIII Olympic and Paralympic Games. Held every four years, they are a celebration … 2023, the Minister of Sports and Olympic and Paralympic Games Amélie Oudéa- Castéra announced while speaking … recommended awarding the 2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games to France – a decision set to be confirmed … the Minister of Sports and Olympic and Paralympic Games’ announcement that athletes representing … allowed to compete in the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games, which all created a “domino effect”. While …
Amnesty International · 15 July 2024 English
French sport. “Banning French athletes from competing with sports hijabs at the Olympic and Paralympic Games makes a mockery of claims that Paris 2024 is the first Gender Equal Olympics and lays bare the …
discriminatory double standards ahead of Olympic and Paralympic Games IOC response to joint letter calling on lifting … competing with sports hijabs at the Olympic and Paralympic Games makes a mockery of claims that Paris 2024 … headgear extends far beyond the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Bans on hijabs are in place in several sports …
Amnesty International · 14 July 2024 English
On 24 May 2024, in advance of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, several human rights organisations wrote to the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ask the IOC to …
advance of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, several human rights organisations wrote … before the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games Dear President Bach, In advance of … of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, the undersigned organisations are writing to ask … French athletes at the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games announced by the French Sports Minister in … These requirements apply to the Olympic and Paralympic Games from 2024 onwards. Prohibitions on the wearing …
EU: European Union · 26 June 2024 English
The EU Work Plan on Sport 2021-2024 sets knowledge-building and analysis of the situation in relation to the different rights of European athletes participating in sport events as a priority. …
championships as well as the Olympic and Paralympic Games, but also inspire and motivate countless others …
UN: The United Nations · 24 June 2024 English
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annual sporting event in Nigeria known as paralympic games for PWDs including those with neurological …
