The growl rises!
A few weeks before the start of the World Cup in Qatar (from November 28 to December 18, 2022), more and more voices are being heard against this meeting and its organizers.
New episode this Thursday with a poll on behalf of the NGO Amnesty International which indicates that a majority of fans of the Football World Cup are in favor of compensation by Fifa for workers "who suffered" during preparations for the 2022 World Cup.
The rich gas emirate is regularly denounced by NGOs for the treatment reserved for the hundreds of thousands of workers who have come, particularly from Asia, to the major construction sites linked to the World Cup.
Doha and the governing body of world football insist on their side on the progress made.
This YouGov poll was conducted among 17,000 adults in 15 countries (in Europe, the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Morocco and Kenya) for Amnesty International, originally in May from a l appeal to Fifa to compensate the workers.
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Seventy-three percent of respondents say they “strongly support” or “tend to support” the fact that the body should use part of its income to offer compensation to workers whose rights have been violated.
Of those surveyed who say they will watch at least one game, 84% say they are in favor of this proposition.
Only ten percent of respondents tend to “oppose” or “strongly oppose” any compensation, while 17% say they are undecided.
The survey also shows that more than two-thirds of respondents want their countries' football federations to "speak publicly on human rights issues" in the context of the 2022 World Cup, reports Amnesty.
"Fifa still has time to do the right thing," said Steve Cockburn, head of the social and economic justice program at Amnesty, in a statement.
“The fans do not want a World Cup tainted (…) by human rights violations.
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In a press release sent to AFP, Fifa "takes note" of this survey and insists on "the measures put in place in recent years by (it) and its partners in Qatar to protect the workers".
Fifa "takes note" of this poll
"The workers have been compensated in various forms when the companies have not respected the standards of well-being" of the Supreme Organizing Committee of the 2022 World Cup, assures Fifa.
“These measures have been complemented by those taken by the Ministry of Labor to enforce Qatar's labor laws and provide access to remedies.
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The governing body of world football says it "will continue (its) efforts".
In an interview with the French weekly Le Point unveiled on Wednesday evening (only his third formal interview since he came to power in 2013), the Emir of Qatar also spoke on this subject.
“We understood that we had a problem with the work on the construction sites, and we took strong measures in record time.
We changed the law and we punish anyone who mistreats an employee;
we have opened our doors to NGOs and we cooperate with them.
We are proud of it, ”says Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani.