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Qatar 2022: Nepali rights organisations reiterate calls for worker remedy as almost 40 organisations write to FIFA
On 15 December, a group of almost 40 human rights organisations in Nepal signed a joint letter to FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, calling on him to stop "looking the other way" while workers who suffered abuse as Qatar prepared to host the World Cup are denied compensation.
The organisations have also displayed campaign messages at Tribuhvan International Airports, where bodies of Nepali workers who died overseas are regularly received.
We have come together to call on Gianni Infantino to make good on FIFA’s promises to respect workers’ rights and agree to compensate workers who have suffered abuses and families who have lost loved ones. We know the real human costs of the abuses faced by so many workers in Qatar. Families have spiralled into poverty, children have been taken out of school, and workers forced to migrate again to pay off debts. FIFA cannot be blind to this reality and must act to make things right.Som Prasad Lamichhane, Executive Director of the Pravasi Nepali Coordination Committee