Posted on 11/11/2021 6:03:59 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Leading sponsors of the Beijing Winter Olympics should explain why they remain largely silent about alleged human rights abuses in China with the Games opening there in just under three months, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
The rights group said in an on-line briefing that it had reached out to all but one of the IOC’s so-called TOP sponsors — and leading broadcast rights holder NBC — in lengthy letters almost six months ago.
The only reply came from sponsor Allianz, which it wrote only last month.
“We stand behind the Olympic Movement and our longstanding support for its ideals will not waver,” Allianz said.
The Beijing Games open Feb. 4.
The letters asked sponsors to be aware of the rights climate in China, and to scrutinize supply chains and other operations to assure they do not “contribute to human rights violations.”
The TOP sponsors, at the time of the letter, included: Airbnb, Alibaba, Allianz, Atos, Bridgestone, Coca-Cola, Dow, General Electric, Intel, Omega, Panasonic, Procter & Gamble, Toyota, and Visa.
Two sponsors — Dow and General Electric — have completed contracts with the IOC that ended with the recent Tokyo Olympics.
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The sponsors are covering their eyes and holding their noses while trying to pretend China is not a racist country and is not the leading polluter in the world....
SHTF after, or during the Olympics.
Allianz is a German multinational who probably is still proud of the Olympic spirit in Berlin 1936.
Boycott!
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