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23 Aug 2022

Author:
Michael Houston, Inside the Games

Only four Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup sponsors addressing migrant worker risk

Only four of the 19 sponsors for the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup have engaged in the risk to migrant workers involved in the tournament, with companies such as McDonald's, Visa and Crypto failing to disclose this information on human rights.

Adidas, Budweiser, Coca-Cola and Qatar Airways responded to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, which Gulf programme manager of Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Isobel Archer says is not enough.

None of the regional sponsors - GWC, UPL, Ooredoo, The Look Company and Algorand - responded or had human rights policies, nor did World Cup sponsors Hisense, Vivo, Mengniu, Crypto and BYJU's; as well as FIFA sponsors Wanda, Visa and QatarEnergy.

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