🗣️ “At best they’re volunteers for the World Cup and at worst they’re a mouthpiece for the Supreme Committee'

👇 FSE Executive Director Ronan Evain on supporters being paid to attend the World Cup on the condition they do not criticize Qatar...

“Deaths and harm cannot be undone, but for so many migrant workers and families, some financial assistance—a slender slice of the huge profits from the #WorldCup —would be a start.”

—@HRW’s Rothna Begum in The Independent

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Looking forward to the World Cup? We are too! And to defending and supporting the right to report freely and safely ⚽️⚽️⚽️ #Qatar2022 #PressFreedom 👇👇👇

Journalists are invited to learn from Sport & Rights Alliance experts in a briefing on LGBTI+ & women's rights and press freedom around #Qatar2022

More info below ⚽️

📌 #SRA Press Briefing: #Qatar2022 & LGBTI+ Rights, Women's Rights & Press Freedom w/
⚽️Halvor Ekeland, journalist unlawfully detained in Qatar
⚽️Di Cunningham cofounder of LGBTQ+ fan alliance 3LIONSPRIDE 🌈🦁🦁🦁⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏳️‍🌈
⚽️Justin Shilad MENA researcher Committee to Protect Journalists
⚽️& more

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This week Sharan Burrow kicks off our 2nd #RoarRoom on gender equity & decent work🙌

As the 1st woman to hold the role of ITUC General Secretary & many others throughout her career, Sharan brings incredible experience & expertise to this discussion—make sure to tune in!📌

Migrant workers have made Qatar's #FIFAWorldCup a reality.

Many suffered wage theft, injuries, and even death.

7 Football Associations now say: #PayUpFIFA !

When will FA's from Latin America join them?

Op-ed by Human Rights Watch's Santiago Menna:

hrw.org/news/2022/10/2…
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📢Powerful message from Professional Footballers Australia Socceroos calling for continued action in #Qatar to establish:
✊a migrant resource centre,
✊effective remedy,
✊the decriminalization of same-sex relationships &
✊a legacy that football can truly be proud of.

#Qatar 2022 #PlayersVoice

📣The #RoarRoom is back next week w/ a new session on #GenderEquity & #DecentWork 👏

We're thrilled to have labor & gender equity giants Sharan Burrow, #YolandaBeattie , Paul Marsh & Rachael Burford leading the conversation⬇️

Affiliates can contact #WorldPlayers to register📌

🚨'Only weeks ahead of the #WorldCup , LGBT people are raising the alarm on the abuses they have endured by security forces...

'FIFA.com should push the Qatari government to ensure long-term reform that protects LGBT people from discrimination & violence.' – Rasha Younes / Human Rights Watch

Read important new Human Rights Watch reporting on #LGBT rights abuses in #Qatar , documenting how—with the #Qatar 2022 FIFA.com #WorldCup only weeks away—Qatari security forces detained+abused LGBT people; @HRW’s Rasha Younes:

hrw.org/news/2022/10/2…

📢 Football Supporters Europe and the Broomloan Collective urgently call on Official SSC Napoli and the Italian authorities to ensure the safety and security of fans travelling to Italy next week by allowing them to attend their #UCL game as planned.

Fans don’t want to sit in stadiums that workers died to build.

Retweet to let FIFA.com know we are waiting for their commitment to compensate migrant worker families before the #WorldCup kicks off.

#PayUpFIFA #1MonthCountdown ⌛

With one month until the World Cup kicks off, has Qatar kept its promises to end exploitation and improve workers' rights?

While important laws are now in place, weak enforcement and means abuses persist on a significant scale. A thread on our new report

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With only one month until the #WorldCup opens, read new @HRW research showing how many migrant workers in #Qatar had to pay illegal recruitment fees.

Unscrupulous companies transferred their costs to impoverished migrants, who ended up in debt bondage:
hrw.org/news/2022/10/2…

'We are seeing changes, but there are certainly major issues that remain in terms of accountability & remedy for the victims of human rights abuses.'

Brendan Schwab on #Qatar2022 & how global sport should respond.

World Players Association #SRA FIFA World Cup
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Women and girls everywhere should be free to decide what they want to wear. Stand up for the brave Iranian women and athletes fighting against the abusive, degrading and discriminatory compulsory veiling laws. #IranProtests 2022 #IranProtests #IranianWomen

So have four of FIFA's biggest sponsors - adidas, Budweiser, Coca-Cola and McDonald's have all stated their support for remedy for workers (others never responded...).

FIFA's sponsors gave it $1.6 billion in the four years leading to the 2022 World Cup

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