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Fifa urged to right the wrongs experienced by World Cup migrant workers in Qatar
People gather around the official countdown clock showing remaining time until the kick-off of the World Cup 2022, in Doha, Qatar, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022.

FIFA is facing fresh calls to take “urgent and concrete action” to remedy abuse suffered by World Cup migrant workers in Qatar.

Football’s world governing body has been urged by human rights group Amnesty International to publish a review it began in March of whether existing remedies were sufficient.

A workers’ representative quoted in a new Amnesty report, A Legacy In Jeopardy, said: “Fifa talked a lot before the World Cup about workers’ welfare, but now, a year after, nothing has happened — it was all talk.”

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