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Under pressure after the reproaches formulated by the NGO Amnesty International, the French Football Federation emerged from its silence, Saturday September 25, regarding the controversies over the organization of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, assuring that “participating does not mean turning a blind eye“.
At 50 days kick-off of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, and following attacks by the NGO Amnesty International, which accuses it of not having taken a position to support migrant workers there, the French Football Federation replied , Saturday, September 25. “Participating does not mean turning a blind eye and endorsing“, she writes in particular, praising the “social advances in Qatar“that the World Cup would have allowed.
The federation has promised to ensure respect for human rights in the hotels and facilities it will use during the competition. Amnesty International welcomes the pledge, but calls for further commitments to compensate workers and families of those who died on the worksites. A Guardian survey suggests at least 6,500 deaths. Other problems are pointed out by the NGO, such as the reception of homosexual people in a country which prohibits homosexuality, or the ecological question, with the construction of gigantic air-conditioned stadiums.