World Cup 2022: Qatar pledge on worker rights 'mere PR stunt'

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I, too, don't believe that the laborers' working conditions will improve. They will continue to be worked as practically slave labor.


World Cup 2022: Qatar pledge on worker rights 'mere PR stunt'


John Sinnottand James Masters, CNN

Updated 7:06 PM ET, Wed May 20, 2015


The Middle East's first World Cup 14 photos
The Qataris have also been busy investing in football abroad. The Qatar Investment Authority bought a majority shareholding in French football club Paris Saint-Germain in May 2011, immediately making it one of the richest teams in Europe. Ex-Milan and Inter coach Leonardo, center, was appointed director of football, while Carlo Ancelotti (left) was coach. Both left in 2013.

Qatar has its own 12-team top division, with the leading four clubs at the end of the season going into the Qatar Crown Prince Cup. Football is the most popular sport in the kingdom, with nearly 700,000 attending matches in any one season.
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(CNN)Amnesty International says world football governing body FIFA is failing to demonstrate any sort of commitment to ensuring Qatar 2022 is "not built on a foundation of exploitation and abuse."

In 2010 the Gulf state won the right to host the World Cup in 2022, but the decision to award the tournament to Qatar left it and FIFA with a number of headaches.

Both Qatar and FIFA have been forced to answer allegations of poor working conditions and abuse of immigrant workers brought in to build the facilities for the World Cup, while questions have been raised about the bidding process -- in which, also, Russia was awarded the 2018 tournament.

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