Episode 28: Sports & Rights Season – A Conversation with Enes Kanter Freedom
12/20/24 • 25 min
This will be the fifth and final episode of our Sports & Rights season. Over the course of this series, we've taken an in-depth look at what happens when the worlds of sports and human rights collide. We've brought you conversations with Olympians, activists, journalists, academics, and fans. We've tried to unpack some of the stickiest questions around the intersection of sports and human rights.
This podcast season started just as the FIFA World Cup kicked off in Qatar, and perhaps appropriately it ended just as FIFA announced that Saudia Arabia will host the 2034 World Cup. If this tells us anything, it is that the questions we've been grappling with about sports and human rights aren't going away anytime soon.
But, to end the season on a more hopeful and uplifting note, we're bringing you a wonderful conversation "from the vault" – a Q&A with Enes Kanter Freedom, NBA player turned human rights activist. This conversation took place before a live audience at the 2022 Lantos Human Rights Prize ceremony in Washington, DC, when Kanter Freedom was awarded the Prize. He was interviewed by Lantos Foundation President Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett.
We hope you enjoy this conversation with an athlete who gave up everything to stand up for human rights.
Highlights from the 2022 Lantos Human Rights Prize ceremony
Producers: Chelsea Hedquist, Brittany Smith
Audio editor: Brittany Smith
Music: Riorr by Audiorezout
This will be the fifth and final episode of our Sports & Rights season. Over the course of this series, we've taken an in-depth look at what happens when the worlds of sports and human rights collide. We've brought you conversations with Olympians, activists, journalists, academics, and fans. We've tried to unpack some of the stickiest questions around the intersection of sports and human rights.
This podcast season started just as the FIFA World Cup kicked off in Qatar, and perhaps appropriately it ended just as FIFA announced that Saudia Arabia will host the 2034 World Cup. If this tells us anything, it is that the questions we've been grappling with about sports and human rights aren't going away anytime soon.
But, to end the season on a more hopeful and uplifting note, we're bringing you a wonderful conversation "from the vault" – a Q&A with Enes Kanter Freedom, NBA player turned human rights activist. This conversation took place before a live audience at the 2022 Lantos Human Rights Prize ceremony in Washington, DC, when Kanter Freedom was awarded the Prize. He was interviewed by Lantos Foundation President Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett.
We hope you enjoy this conversation with an athlete who gave up everything to stand up for human rights.
Highlights from the 2022 Lantos Human Rights Prize ceremony
Producers: Chelsea Hedquist, Brittany Smith
Audio editor: Brittany Smith
Music: Riorr by Audiorezout
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Episode 27: Sports & Rights Season – Who Can Hold the Sports World Accountable?
Episode Notes
In the last episode of our Sports & Rights season, we dove into the subject of sportswashing and the nefarious use of sports as soft power. At the end of that episode, we posed a few questions: Who plays a role in ensuring that sports aren’t just about profits over power? Who can guarantee that human rights get their due in these huge, lucrative businesses? In this episode, we try to answer those questions by talking to athletes, activists, and experts in sports ethics. We also touch on recent events, such as FIFA accepting Saudia Arabia’s bid for the 2034 World Cup, which underscore just how important the topic of sports and human rights continues to be.
We’ll be back soon with our final episode of this season!
Read more:
“We did not help build women’s tennis to have it exploited by Saudia Arabia,” Opinion by Chris Evert and Martin Navratilova, The Washington Post
“Saudi Arabia will host the 2034 World Cup – a controversial pick,” NPR News
Producers: Chelsea Hedquist, Brittany Smith
Audio editor: Brittany Smith
Music: Riorr by Audiorezout
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