Responding to a pledge made by FIFA on the group’s annual congress in the present day in Kigali, the place it agreed to carry a evaluate into whether or not current treatments for the abuses suffered by 1000’s of employees who helped ship the 2022 World Cup in Qatar are enough, Steve Cockburn, Amnesty Worldwide’s Head of Financial and Social Justice, stated:
“Whereas FIFA has acknowledged that it wants to handle the query of treatment for employees who suffered to make the 2022 World Cup attainable, it’s abundantly clear that many 1000’s of employees have been unable to acquire compensation for horrific abuses linked to the World Cup. FIFA should not search to kick their claims for treatment into the lengthy grass with a prolonged re-examination of well-established details. Staff have already waited far too lengthy for justice.
FIFA should not search to kick their claims for treatment into the lengthy grass.
Steve Cockburn, Head of Financial and Social Justice, Amnesty Worldwide
“Any evaluate should give attention to precisely how FIFA will be certain that employees and their households are compensated for the abuses they suffered — together with unlawful recruitment charges which were paid, wages that have been stolen and lives which were misplaced — slightly than whether or not they intend to take action in any respect. Something much less can be a blatant whitewashing of FIFA’s duties to the individuals who suffered most whereas the group made billions.”
“We welcome the efforts of nationwide Soccer Associations who’ve championed the rights of employees and reminded FIFA of its personal human rights commitments. We urge them to proceed to take action till justice is achieved. Collectively, we’ll marketing campaign to make sure employees and their households obtain the compensation they deserve.”