FIFA 2022: World Cup sponsors are urged to support worker compensation in Qatar
On Tuesday, human rights activists encouraged more World Cup sponsors in Qatar to back demands for payments to migrant workers and their families for alleged abuses. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and FairSquare said in a joint statement that four of the 14 FIFA corporate partners and World Cup sponsors — AB InBev, Adidas, Coca-Cola, and McDonald's — have expressed their support for monetary compensation. The rights activists claimed that the other 10 have not publicly shown their solidarity or complied with requests to talk about "tournament-related violations." According to Minky Worden, director of global initiatives at HRW, "brands buy rights to sponsor the World Cup because they want to be associated with joy, fair competition, and spectacular human achievement on the playing field — not rampant wage theft and the deaths of workers who made the World Cup possible." "With just two months until the opening kickoff, sponsors should use their i...