Sep. 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The NGO (Human Right Watch) has demanded that the sponsors of the 2022 World Cup and FIFA’s corporate partners put pressure on the world football association and the Government of Qatar to compensate the families of the dead or injured migrants. during the preparation of the sporting event.
This call comes at a time when a new global opinion poll commissioned by Amnesty International shows that 66 per cent of those questioned, and 72 per cent of those likely to watch at least one World Cup match, have agreed to such compensation.
According to the organization, the majority of the participants in the survey – carried out by YouGov and in which 18,000 people participated – believe that FIFA’s corporate partners and sponsors should publicly ask for compensation for migrant workers who suffered while preparing for the World Cup in Qatar
In July, three human rights organizations wrote to FIFA’s 14 corporate partners and World Cup sponsors urging them to ask the soccer body to correct abuses against migrant workers related to World Cup preparations.
Since then, four of them, Budweiser, Adidas, Coca-Cola and McDonald’s have expressed their support for such financial compensation, according to HRW.
Ten other sponsors have offered no public support and have not responded to written requests to discuss tournament-related abuses. These companies are Visa, Hyundai-Kia, Wanda Group, Qatar Energy, Qatar Airways, Vivo, Hisense, Mengniu, Crypto and Byju’s.
“Brands buy the rights to sponsor the World Cup because they want to be associated with joy, fair competition and spectacular human achievement on the field of play, not the rampant wage theft and worker deaths that made the World Cup possible.” World Cup,” said Minky Worden, director of global initiatives at HRW.
“There are only two months left until the first ball is kicked and the sponsors should use their considerable influence to put pressure on FIFA and Qatar to fulfill their human rights responsibilities towards these workers,” he added.
In addition to the World Cup sponsors, HRW has called on the teams to use their influence to ask FIFA and the Qatari authorities to publicly commit to a compensation fund.
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