Norwegian Football Association president calls out FIFA
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Norway’s Football Association president Lise Klaveness has criticized FIFA & Qatar on human rights grounds.
“The migrant workers injured or families of those who died in the build-up to the World Cup must be cared for.
FIFA, all of us, must take all necessary measures to really implement change.”
Thousands of migrant workers have died of unexplained causes, including those building the World Cup infrastructure.
Football associations, players and fans should demand action from FIFA & Qatar to defend human rights.
FIFA World Cup 2022 is built on human rights abuses.
On March 31, as FIFA convened its 72nd Congress in Doha, one speaker took a brave stance on the uncomfortable truth about human rights realities in Qatar.
Lise Klaveness, the Norwegian Football Association president, directly called out the past failures of FIFA to protect human rights in the context of selecting FIFA to host the 2022 World Cup. Using the imagery of “the beautiful game,” she noted how “Human rights, equality, democracy, the core interests of football, were not in the starting 11 until many years later. These basic rights were pressured on as substitutes, mainly by outside voices.”