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 influence. This includes pressuring FIFA and Qatar to uphold its human rights obligations to these employees," the statement says.


The partners and sponsors Visa, Hyundai-Kia, Qatar Energy, Qatar Airways, Vivo, Hisense, Mengniu, Crypto, Wanda, and Byju's have remained silent regarding the compensation campaign.


As well as being accused of not doing enough to ease the difficult conditions, Qatar has also been accused of underreporting migrant worker deaths and injuries. The amount of unpaid pay has also frequently increased.


The Qatari government has emphasized significant improvements it has implemented, such as a minimum salary, the elimination of a program that provided businesses tight powers over workers, and harsher regulations about working in the heat of the summer.


The World Cup organizing committee of Qatar's secretary general, Hassan al-Thawadi, announced on Monday that Qatar had agreed to refund $28 million to migrant workers who had paid unauthorized fees to intermediaries in their home country to work in Qatar.


The Gulf state has taken on labor reforms "head-on," he continued, along with other initiatives like setting a minimum wage and enhancing working conditions.


Thawadi said at the Concordia global affairs conference in New York that Qatar acknowledged the World Cup has the "transformational ability" to alter working conditions.


Thawadi told the conference, "We always had rules and regulations that were in line with international norms, but the enforcement mechanism, the oversight, wasn't to a standard that we were proud of.


He added that the improvements will "last long beyond 2022" and that "we recognized early on that the World Cup will create that momentum and will be that vehicle that will propel these reforms."


73 percent of the 17,000 respondents to a YouGov poll commissioned by Amnesty and released this month "strongly support" or "tend to favor" FIFA paying migrant workers for rights violations.

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