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ITUC’s Burrow wants Qatar stripped of World Cup
New Fifa report recommends 2022 tournament is moved

ITUC general secretary Sharan Burrow yesterday urged Fifa not to ignore the new report into its human rights obligations and strip Qatar of the 2022 World Cup.

Havard lecturer John Ruggie was tasked by football’s world governing body making a recommendation on their human rights obligations and came to the conclusion that tournaments should be removed from countries if hosts are failing to eradicate abuses.

Burrows said: “Fifa commissioned this report and now it needs to put the recommendations in place.

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