When FIFA awarded the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, they committed one of the organisation’s most unpopular and detested decisions (and that’s a tough title to win considering the hundreds of top notch competitors in that category). In order to fulfil the obligation to host the tournament, the tiny state was going to need to … Read more
Qatar’s failure to confront with a sense of immediacy and urgency appalling working and living conditions of its foreign workers, who constitute a majority of the population, and its reluctance to communicate steps it is taking, is undermining the very purpose of its staging of the 2022 World Cup: the creation of the kind of … Read more
Employment-related complaints by two international players, one of whom is barred from leaving Qatar, threaten to overshadow the 2022 World Cup organizing committee’s release of a charter of worker’s rights designed to fend off criticism of labor conditions in the Gulf state. In separate interviews French-Algerian player Zahir Belounis, who is locked into a salary … Read more