Human Rights Groups warn of the death of workers migrants

Human Rights Groups warn about the “jump” of the death of workers for the construction of migrants in Saudi Arabia, as it prepares to host the World Cup in 2034.

Workers are already dying of preventable workplace accidents in the country, according to Human Rights Watch and Fairsquare, who have also published the report today.

Many such deaths have been wrongly classified as occurring for natural reasons and the families of workers are not compensated, the reports said.

Both groups called on the Saudi authorities to provide major safety protection for the huge migrant work in the country.

“The 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia will be the highest and most expensive so far, but there may be the highest cost in human life, as millions of workers migrants build infrastructure, including 11 new stadiums, the railway and 185,000 hotel rooms, MINKY WORKY, MINKY WORDEN.

The warnings come a day after FIFA President Gianni Infantino visited the country with Donald Trump – visiting an investment forum in the US and Saudi.

FIFA – the global governing body of football – says it has “an unwavering commitment to protect and promote human rights in the context of its operations.”

But Human Rights Watch accused FIFA of not learning lessons from The death of workers migrants in the forthcoming World Cup in Qatar In 2022

Data on the death of migrants are difficult to get in a country where human rights groups have very limited access and trade unions are prohibited.

But Human Rights Watch interviewed the families of 31 Bangladesh, India and Nepal workers who fell from heights, were crushed or beheaded by heavy machines or were electricity.

Heat is another major concern as Saudi Arabia increases construction work in the preparation for hosting the tournament 2034.

In March, it is reported that a Pakistanian brigadier, Mohammed Arshad, fell from a construction site at a stadium built in the eastern city of Al Hobar – the first death associated with the World Cup.

Last year, the Saudi Arabian government said it had “tangible achievements” in the health and safety of labor, with the percentage of death and injury decreasing.

FIFA also praised “significant steps” taken by Saudi Arabia to reform its Laws from 2018.

But the Union of World Construction Workers, BWI, said there was an “anxious rise” in accidents that could be prevented.

“These are the result of systematic negligence, corruption and inadequate supervision and accountability,” said BWI Secretary General, Ambet Yuson.

And the Saudi medical authorities rarely conduct autopsies to determine the exact cause of the death of workers migrants, according to FairsquareS

“Hundreds of thousands of young men, many of whom have young families, are placed in an employment system that poses a serious risk to their lives, a medical system that does not have the ability to determine the cause of their death, and a political system that does not seem to protect them, or to understand how they have died, let alone compensate for the families broken by Saudi Arabia.

He described FIFA’s human rights policies as “shame”.

“While FIFA praised Saudi Arabia for the ribs and high -paying Western law firms, it generates huge profits to cure Saudit’s reputation, children in places like Nepal grow up without their fathers, and they never even learn how they died, he said.”

FIFA told Human Rights Watch that it plans to create a workers’ welfare system dedicated to compulsory standards and mechanisms for the implementation of construction and provision of services in the World Cup in Saudi Arabia.

A letter said: “We are convinced that the measures attached to guarantee construction companies, respect the rights of their workers on the FIFA World Cup sites, can define a new standard for the protection of workers in the country and contribute to the wider process of labor and the world.

But Human Rights Watch They said that no more details were provided on how the welfare system would work.

“The Saudi authorities, FIFA and other employers must ensure that all the deaths of migrant workers, regardless of the perceived cause, time and place, are properly investigated and that the families of deceased workers are treated with dignity and receive fair and timely compensation,” the group said.

The BBC addressed the Saudi authorities for comment.