After years of outcry over the human rights abuses against migrant workers during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, a FIFA-commissioned report concluded that FIFA, soccer’s world governing body, “has a responsibility” to compensate those who suffered.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    25 days ago

    If you ask me, FIFA should require host countries to make these payments. If they fail, they should be expelled from FIFA and then FIFA should make the workers whole.

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      25 days ago

      I feel like the answer to that question depends highly on how much FIFA knew, when they knew it, and if/when they acted to make it right.