UN expert: Big sports events force many from homes (AP via Yahoo! Sports)

8 March 2010, 2:03 pm

A U.N. human rights investigator said Monday that numerous people have complained to her of being forced from their homes or priced out of the housing market as a result of large events such as the World Cup. Raquel Rolnik, an independent investigator appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council, criticized football's world governing body, FIFA, for failing to ensure that cities wanting to stage...... Read More »

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