With just under 100 days until the FIFA Qatar World Cup 2022 kicks off in Doha, most tournament sponsors remain tight-lipped on their human rights policies and processes to protect migrant workers, a report has found.

Sponsors of the FIFA Qatar World Cup 2022 have failed to disclose crucial information about their human rights and recruitment risk management in the run up to the tournament, according to the Business & Human Rights Resource Center.

The key finds of the report include:

• Coca-Cola is the only tournament sponsor to make a public statement on migrant workers to date.
• Only four out of seven FIFA Partners – adidas, Coca-Cola, Hyundai Kia Motor and Visa – and two out of seven Qatar World Cup sponsors – Budweiser and McDonald’s -have published human rights policies.
• None of the responses from Budweiser, Coca-Cola and QatarAirways gave detail on due diligence. For example, not one disclosed data on payment of recruitment fees by migrant workers or outlined whether workers are interviewed to mitigate against risk of fee-payment.
• Only adidas – which does not have operations in Qataral though it distributes goods there – engaged with the survey’s questions.
• McDonald’s did not respond to the company's questions despite operating in all six Gulf Cooperation Council countries.