{"id":5286,"date":"2019-09-14T22:38:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T13:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/?p=5286"},"modified":"2023-10-25T09:44:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T00:44:23","slug":"construction-2020-olympics-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/news\/2019\/09\/14\/construction-2020-olympics-report\/","title":{"rendered":"HRN releases report: &#8220;Severe Working Conditions Continue in Extreme Heat at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Construction Sites: Is this still an Olympics for Sustainable Development (SDGs)?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">HRN has a released a report on severe labor conditions at construction sites for the 2020 Olympic Games.<\/div>\n<p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">For th<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">e<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0report,\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">we visited<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0six construction sites\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">and documented dangerously high temperatures, and\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">we concluded that several major\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">principles of the\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0have been ignored by authorities in charge of the construction, including that employers conduct due diligence, take measures to prevent harms, and implement an efficient complaint mechanism, as the current mechanism has major flaws that make it ineffective.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">You can read the full report from the following link: <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/HRN_Report_on_Severe_Working_Conditions_at_Olympic_Construction_Sites.pdf\">HRN_Report_on_Severe_Working_Conditions_at_Olympic_Construction_Sites.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HRN has a released a report on severe labor conditions at construction sites for the 2020 Olympic Games. For the\u00a0report,\u00a0we visited\u00a0six construction sites\u00a0and documented dangerously high temperatures, and\u00a0we concluded that several major\u00a0principles of the\u00a0UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights\u00a0have been ignored by authorities in charge of the construction, including that employers conduct due diligence, take measures to prevent harms, and implement an efficient complaint mechanism, as the current mechanism has major flaws that make it ineffective. \u00a0 You can read the full report from the following link: HRN_Report_on_Severe_Working_Conditions_at_Olympic_Construction_Sites.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[143,105,207],"countries":[248],"class_list":["post-5286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-report","tag-business-and-human-rights","tag-corporate-social-responsibility","tag-olympics","countries-japan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5286"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5328,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions\/5328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5286"},{"taxonomy":"countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/countries?post=5286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}