国際人権NGOヒューマンライツ・ナウは、第47回国連人権理事会にて東京五輪の開催中止または延期を求める口頭声明を発表いたしました。
※本声明の動画が人権理事会にて公開されてからたった4時間後、東京都に4回目の「緊急事態宣言」を出すことが決定されました。東京五輪は、開催期間すべてが宣言の時期（7月12日～8月22日）に含まれます。
本声明では、コロナ禍での五輪開催に対する大会組織委員会の重大な責任を強調し、日本の医療機関の声に耳を傾け、オリンピックの開催を中止または延期、もしくは無観客で開催するよう求めました。
以下のリンクから口頭声明のビデオをご覧いただけます（1:19:39あたりから）：
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1f/k1f9ac79ks?kalturaStartTime=4782
声明のスクリプトはこちらからダウンロードいただけます（PDF）:
HRC47_OS_Olympics_Transcript.pdf
（以下、スクリプト全文）
7 July 2021
Human Rights Council 47th Session
Quadrennial Panel on Sport & the Olympic Ideal
Speaker: Inès MOUILLARD
Transcript of Oral Statement on the Olympics
Madam President,
Human Rights Now expresses deep concern over the decision to continue the Summer Olympics in Tokyo despite the ongoing pandemic.
Covid-19 has infected over 180 million people and killed nearly 4 million. With athletes around the world coming to Japan, the risk to human life and health is unacceptably high. Most people in Japan are still not vaccinated; the number of newly infected people is increasing; and medical capacity is still woefully insufficient and at risk of collapse.
Top Japanese medical associations have called for the Olympics to be cancelled or held without spectators due to the infection risk, opinions the organizing committee has not seriously considered even as it has recruited medical personnel as volunteers, placing further burden on their capacity to fight covid. The committee is also arranging specifically for children’s attendance, placing them at risk.
Planned measures, such as vaccines and PCR tests for athletes, are not sufficient to prevent infections and discriminate by protecting some while placing others at risk. The Indian delegation has also complained of discriminatory treatment.
All of these policies contradict the Olympic Charter principles of human rights, non-discrimination, solidarity and friendship. All available financial and medical resources should be allocated not for holding an Olympics under a pandemic, but for the fight against covid worldwide with no one left behind. No Olympics should ever sacrifice the rights to health and life.
We urge organizers to cancel or postpone the Olympic Games until after the pandemic is over.
Thank you.
