The IOC has set up an advisory committee on human rights chaired by Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the former United Nations commissioner for human rights.
President Thomas Bach said Saturday at meetings in the Japanese capital that "human rights standards" will be included in Olympic host-city contracts beginning with the 2024 Olympic in Paris.
Bach was asked if the committee would look at human rights in China, where the ruling Communist Party has been criticised for the interment of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in western China.
Beijing is the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics, and spent USD 40 billion to hold the 2008 Olympics.
Bach said the IOC would not question China because it "has not the mandate nor the authority to solve the human rights problems" that are clearly "political issues."
A recent report by Human Rights Watch said the interment centers in western China involved "arbitrary detention, torture and mistreatment."
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