(England cricket legend and Ashington FC manager Steve Harmison joined the protest) The Northumberland club hosted a rally in support of a campaign led by a national trade union the TUC ahead of its…Read more…
At the summit
There wasn’t time to answer all the questions from the floor. The fans got stuck in to our panel at the football Supporters’ Summit, where the Football Supporters’ Federation had…Read more…
TELL THE BARCELONA FOOTBALL CLUB TO DROP QATAR AIRWAYS
Abdes Ouaddou, the Moroccan footballer who found himself a victim of kafala when his Qatari club stopped paying him and refused to let him leave the country when he protested, has been a tireless…Read more…
Qatar’s council cancels kafala changes
Qatar’s failure to push through its long mooted reforms to the insidious kafala system has left the country’s attempt to portray itself as a slow moving but sincere reformer in tatters. In May 2014,…Read more…
The fight for workers’ rights knows no borders
Playfair Qatar is the British TUC’s contribution to the global campaign seeking better lives and internationally recognized – properly enforced – workers’ rights for Qatar’s desperate migrant…Read more…
Tartan Army calls on Qatar to Play Fair this Friday
Are you going to be in Edinburgh on Friday evening? Know anyone who will be? We need people who care about the exploitation being suffered by migrant workers in Qatar to help us protest at the…Read more…
CNN covers Qatar’s arrest of journalists & ongoing mistreatment of workers
Qatar 2022: Will VISA statement prove costly for Sepp Blatter’s FIFA?
On Monday, the TUC’s Playfair Qatar campaign joined forces with an eclectic group of campaigners. The ITUC, New FIFA Now and SKINS Official Non-Sponsor, all with a track record of speaking out…Read more…
The Hypocrisy World Cup? FIFA sponsors silent on Qatar abuses
62 workers may lose their lives for each game played during Qatar’s 2022 World Cup, a tournament likely to be sponsored by FIFA partner companies Coke, VISA, McDonald’s, Adidas, Kia and Hyundai….Read more…
Top down reform can never move fast enough to save lives in Qatar – that’s why trade unions are needed
Only free Trade Unions can stop thousands dying in Qatar. We’ll be honest. Very occasionally our campaign partners and volunteers don’t quite understand one of our key demands of Qatar. The right to…Read more…
Qatar’s Inaction Replay
It’s a strange tactic to take the anniversary of a promise you didn’t keep to make exactly the same promise. One year ago, with great fanfare, Qatar’s government promised the world…Read more…
New PR strategy switched on as Qatar co-opts critics
Last year, Channel 4 ran an expose of a football blog called The Pressing Game. The blog, supposedly a grass-roots affair, had the odd celebrity contributor and a wide-ranging subject matter. C4 had…Read more…
Fifa’s real crime with Qatar 2022 is ignoring the workers’ plight
The Independent’s Chief Football Correspondent, Sam Wallace, keeps the focus on the most important of the 2022 World Cup’s issues. The BBC Newsnight team investigating the 1.5 million…Read more…
News roundup: Qatar under attack! Sort of.
It’s never reassuring when anyone, having been caught doing something bad, apologises, promises to fix things, but then starts telling everyone else that you’re being really unfair on…Read more…
Qatar asks for patience – to perfect its PR strategy
Qatar seems to be confused about what message to put out to its critics, simultaneously accusing them of a conspiracy whilst also meekly asking for more time to put an end to the abuse of migrant…Read more…
Death toll among Qatar’s 2022 World Cup workers revealed
From the Guardian By Owen Gibson & Pete Pattisson Despite Qatar’s promises to improve conditions, Nepalese migrants have died at a rate of one every two days in 2014 “If fatalities among…Read more…
Qatar 2022: Construction firms accused amid building boom
BBC Newsnight carried a superb piece on conditions in Qatar and international complicity in them. The iPlayer piece is (currently) here Below is an article with an embedded, shorter, video. By Sue…Read more…
Nepali man jailed after employer lets Qatar residency lapse
(above: David Cameron on a recent visit to Qatar University) From Doha news… “In an incident that once again calls the enforcement of Qatar’s labor laws into question, a Nepali…Read more…
Striking workers in Qatar find labour laws finally working – against them
If you ever needed proof of Qatar’s one-sided refereeing, this is it The reason “Play by the Rules” is one of our ‘Playfair Qatar’ campaign demands is that Qatar could make life better for its 1.5m…Read more…
Football Supporters’ Federation joins campaign
Our friends at the FSF have now publicly joined the campaign, and hosted this blog on their site. Qatar 2022 has sparked a building frenzy in the world’s richest country with an estimated 1,100…Read more…