workers at its centre and ensures that no harm remains unaddressed,” said
Agnès Callamard.
“Under international law and by FIFA’s own rulebook, both Qatar and FIFA
have obligations and responsibilities respectively to prevent human rights
abuses and provide remedy to victims. The remediation fund Amnesty
International and others are calling for is entirely justifiable given the scale
of abuses that have been suffered, and represents a small fraction of the $6
billion revenues FIFA will make from the tournament.”
Amnesty International is calling on FIFA and Qatar to set up a programme
with the full participation of workers, trade unions, the International Labor
Organization and civil society. They must also learn from the experiences of
other remediation programmes, such as the scheme that followed the 2013
Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,300 workers lost
their lives.
Beyond this tournament, Amnesty International is also calling on FIFA to
guarantee that human rights abuses of migrant workers are not repeated,
and ensure that the awarding of all future tournaments and events follow a
rigorous assessment of risks to human rights along with clear action plans
to prevent and mitigate potential abuses identified. New human rights
criteria were used in the bidding process for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, but do
not appear to have been applied in the decisions to award the 2021 FIFA Club
World Cup first to China, then to the United Arab Emirates.
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