Uyghur activists are calling it The Genocide Games. And it’s sponsored by
Airbnb.

Join the call for Airbnb to withdraw its support for the Beijing Winter
Olympics.

[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 

   
John,

It’s being called The Genocide Games. And Airbnb is sponsoring it.

Global outcry is growing over holding a sporting celebration in Beijing
while the Government of China tortures and imprisons millions of members
of the Uyghur community.

China’s ruling party likes to host prestigious events like the Winter
Olympics to whitewash its human rights record and project the image it
wants to the world.

And corporate sponsors like Airbnb are not only bankrolling the event.
Because they talk a good game on social responsibility they're also
lending credibility to a regime that is committing escalating abuses
against Tibetan, Uyghurs and now Hong Kongers.

[ [link removed] ]Tell Airbnb: use your influence with the International Olympic
Committee to get the 2022 winter Olympics moved, or withdraw your support.

The authorities like to tout a Winter Games that will be ‘open’ and
‘inclusive’, and will create a ‘harmonious world’ and promote ‘social
progress.’

But as work continues in Beijing to ready the stage for the world’s
athletes and media, in the country’s government officials are enacting a
policy that is nothing short of a genocide.

Uyghur survivors have bravely spoken up about the persecution, sexual
abuse and torture they and their loved ones have endured. Untold numbers
of people have disappeared without a trace, and children separated from
their parents.

The Winter Olympics is the opportunity China’s ruling party needs to clean
up its image. But that only works if we -- and their corporate sponsors --
let them.

[ [link removed] ]Airbnb: don’t sponsor genocide.

SumOfUs members working in solidarity with frontline communities of
Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers and Chinese rights activists have taken on
Silicon Valley giants over human rights before -- and won.

Just last year, together we made Apple publish its first ever human rights
policy after raising concerns about how it was complicit with the
government of China’s cybersurveillance programme.

Human rights concerns have long been raised in the arena of elite sports.
Athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos each raised a black-gloved fist for
civil rights on the podium at the 1968 Olympics. Apartheid-era South
Africa was excluded from the Olympics for 24 years because of a sporting
boycott. More recently, Colin Kaepernick has inspired sports men and women
around the world to take a knee against racism.

Ask Airbnb to continue this tradition, live up to its values, and use its
influence for good.



[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 



Thanks for all that you do,
Sondhya and the team at SumOfUs


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Airbnb asked to drop Olympic ties over China rights issues, The
Independent, 23 March 2021
[ [link removed] ]'Their goal is to destroy everyone': Uighur camp detainees allege
systematic rape, BBC, 2 February 2021
[ [link removed] ]Airbnb and IOC Announce Major Global Olympic Partnership, Airbnb

 

 

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