{"id":977667,"date":"2023-02-01T06:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T06:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2023\/feb\/01\/saudi-arabia-tourism-bodys-sponsorship-of-2023-womens-world-cup-condemned-by-human-rights-groups"},"modified":"2023-02-01T06:33:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T06:33:02","slug":"saudi-arabia-tourism-bodys-sponsorship-of-2023-womens-world-cup-condemned-by-human-rights-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/01\/saudi-arabia-tourism-bodys-sponsorship-of-2023-womens-world-cup-condemned-by-human-rights-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia tourism body\u2019s sponsorship of 2023 Women\u2019s World Cup condemned by human rights groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian and New Zealand football organisations seek \u2018urgent\u2019 clarification from Fifa over its deal with Visit Saudi <\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2023\/feb\/01\/australia-live-news-anthony-albanese-alice-springs-alcohol-ban-alan-tudge-robodebt-hearing-cost-of-living-housing-indigenous-australians-george-pell-updates\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li><li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Human rights advocates have condemned the decision to allow Saudi Arabia\u2019s tourism authority to sponsor the 2023 Women\u2019s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, calling it a \u201ctextbook case of sportswashing\u201d.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2023\/jan\/31\/womens-world-cup-football-sponsored-visit-saudi-arabia\">Visit Saudi is set to join international brands<\/a> such as Adidas, Coca-Cola and Visa in attaching their names to the 32-team tournament that is due to kick off on 20 July at Auckland\u2019s Eden Park.<\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2023\/feb\/01\/saudi-arabia-tourism-bodys-sponsorship-of-2023-womens-world-cup-condemned-by-human-rights-groups\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2023\/feb\/01\/saudi-arabia-tourism-bodys-sponsorship-of-2023-womens-world-cup-condemned-by-human-rights-groups\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian and New Zealand football organisations seek \u2018urgent\u2019 clarification from Fifa over its deal with Visit Saudi Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastHu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,53883,2003,6544,6,255,84,2030,56937,56930,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977668,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977667\/revisions\/977668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}