Author Archives: Hen Zeffert
Private vs. public: mega events, human rights and the London Olympics
The Olympics is all about gold and glory, right? Not for the citizens of the host cities of ‘mega events’; life gets tougher as the race for medals begins. Writer and academic Henrietta Zeffert reports from London, a city and citizenry whose East End has been redesigned, transformed and polished in time for the Games – but at what cost to its civil liberties and human rights?
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