by Human Rights’ Watch‘s Minky Worden In this excellent piece published in Newsweek, Human Rights Watch’s Director of Global Initiatives explains why FIFA’s latest promise is…Read more…
This changes everything: Out of FIFA’s turmoil comes a game plan to comply with commitment to respect human rights
ITUC Secretary General Sharan Burrow writes in the Huffington Post When FIFA made a commitment to align itself with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, no one could imagine how…Read more…
British Companies accused of human rights abuse in Qatar
British companies and their Qatar-based subsidiaries are accused of confiscating passports, switching contracts, providing overcrowded accommodation and using kafala to trap workers in abusive…Read more…
Ashington Football Club host TUC rally in support of Qatar World Cup workers
(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…
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…
CNN covers Qatar’s arrest of journalists & ongoing mistreatment of workers
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…
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…