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Labour rights and the Saudi Arabia FIFA World Cup 2034

In December 2024 Saudi Arabia won its bid to host the 2034 FIFA World Cup. While welcomed as just the second World Cup in the Arab world, the bid for the expanded 48-team tournament was dogged by criticism from human rights, legal, migrants’ rights and LGBTQI+ groups, including both international organisations and members of the Saudi diaspora.

The bid involves the refurbishment of four stadiums and construction of 11 more, three of which are already under construction and the rest planned. Besides this, Saudi Arabia plans to spend an estimated hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure, including roads, hotels and other facilities including team, referee and international broadcast facilities, fan festival sites and accommodation of more than 230,000 rooms to align with FIFA requirements.

There are estimates of over 10 million migrant workers living in Saudi Arabia, providing much-needed but mostly low-paid labour in all sectors of the economy. International media, human rights and diaspora organisations have all raised concerns in the run up to the bid award. This page collates information on human rights concerns raised to date, FIFA and the Saudi Arabian Football Federation's commissioned human rights impact assessment, and the responsibilities of companies to respect human and migrant workers' rights in preparation for the tournament.

“The benefits of a World Cup are vast – for football fans, for the local economy and for multinational companies – but those benefits must be shared. The awarding of the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia while the legacy of Qatar 2022 still lies in tatters for thousands of migrant workers who toiled to make it possible should serve as a red flag. As the FIFA circus heads again to a region with the worst human rights protections on several fronts – labour rights, freedom of expression and the press – we cannot tolerate ‘business as usual’ again. FIFA, its sponsors, and multinational companies likely already eyeing up lucrative infrastructure contracts have a legal and ethical responsibility to respect human rights. Particularly those of the most vulnerable migrant workers, who will undoubtedly form the backbone of the “historic transformation” to prepare Saudi Arabia for this global event in 2034.”
Phil Bloomer, Executive Director, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

By the numbers (January 1 2022 – October 31 2024)

This tracker will be updated on a monthly basis and includes cases dating from January 2023 in Saudi Arabia. If you would like more information on reading and accessing the data or would like to submit a case to the tracker, please contact us.

82

Allegations

Impacting migrant workers in Saudi Arabia

1

Stadium

Already linked to alleged migrant worker abuse

25%

Construction

Construction workers are particularly at risk of labour abuse

46%

Wage theft

Most frequently reported abuse for migrants in Saudi Arabia

Joint Statement: Award of 2034 men’s World Cup to Saudi Arabia risks lives and exposes FIFA’s empty human rights commitments

A coalition of over 20 Saudi diaspora and Middle East, workers' origin country-based, international, trade union and fan organisations released a joint statement in response to the vote awarding the 2034 World Cup to FIFA. They state FIFA has ignored both civil society warnings of harm, and its own human rights policies in doing so. The statement highlights the obligations of Saudi authorities, and the responsibilities to respect human rights from FIFA, football associations, sponsors and companies seeking to profit from the World Cup.

Human rights concerns

Unions, labour rights, sports and governance, legal and diaspora-led organisations have all raised concerns regarding the potential human rights impacts of the tournament.

BHRLA responds to football, human rights and worker organisations’ "deep concern" at member Clifford Chance "flawed" 2034 World Cup assessment

Eleven organisations - human rights groups, football supporters and worker organisations - have written to global law firm Clifford Chance over concerns AS&H Clifford Chance, which is based in Riyadh, has conducted and produced a "shockingly poor" human rights risk assessment published by FIFA and expected to provide the basis for awarding the hosting and staging of the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia.

Public Investment Fund "facilitated and benefited" from human rights abuses, finds Human Rights Watch report

In November 2024, Human Rights Watch released a report alleging Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has benefited from and facilitated human rights abuses. The report found the PIF is controlled predominantly by the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who uses the economic power of the PIF to whitewash government abuses, instead of using the sovereign wealth fund for the benefit of the Saudi people.

BWI files ILO forced labour complaint ahead of 2034 FIFA World Cup bid amid 'epidemic' of migrant worker abuse

In a landmark case, Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) has filed a complaint against Saudi Arabia under Article 24 of the ILO constitution, amid widespread human rights violations against migrant workers in the country. In this case, the complaint focuses on Saudi Arabia's failure to observe ILO conventions on forced labour, which the country has ratified.

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