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Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Village Workers Living in Squalor

A company working on the Olympic Village that will receive athletes in Rio de Janeiro next year has housed some of its own workers in conditions that public prosecutors compared to slavery. A sting by a Rio labor court and Brazil’s labor ministry found 11 workers living in squalor as part of their work for Brasil Global Serviços, which is subcontracting on the Ilha Pura residential complex for the 2016 Olympic Games.

u25a0 The designer of Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics logo, who faces plagiarism allegations over the design, apologized after admitting his team traced designs used by Suntory, a Japanese beverage firm, in a promotion campaign.