Name: Ajuna Mwombeki & Vincent Bito-On
Section: C
The Controversy behind the Qatar 2022 World Cup
In the world of football, the FIFA World Cup is the most watched, entertaining and anticipated football tournament in the world. In 2010 Qatar had undeservedly been announced by FIFA as the host of the 2022 World Cup, whose announcement caused a lot of controversy due to the involvement of corruption, the unsuitability of Qatar as a host and the abuse of migrant workers’ human rights. First of all, In 2008, Qatar had lost the bid for the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympics because it was deemed unfit; then in 2010, FIFA had chosen Qatar as host of 2022 World Cup, which led to series of allegations that there was corruption involved. Back in 2008, when Qatar submitted a bid to host …show more content…
According to a special report by International Trade Union Confederation, there are migrant workers working under the so-called Kafala system. In this system, the employers have absolute power of their employees and they can use them as they see fit regardless if their actions violate the workers’ human rights. In addition, the living and working conditions are terrible. For instance, these migrants work for longs hours for 6 days per week and after that, they are kept in an apartheid situation. Putting all these factors together mass deaths unfortunately occur and foreign embassies are forced to stay silent about it (Case against Qatar, 2014, p. 4). Moreover, before entering the country migrant passports get confiscated making it almost impossible to leave the country (Case against Qatar, 2014, p. 10). These are just a few problems every migrant worker has to deal