Paris Boycotts FIFA 2022 World Cup And The Reasons Are Very Genuine

Paris Boycotts FIFA 2022: This time there will be no big screen broadcasting of FIFA World Cup matches in public places and no “fan zones” will be set up in Paris. The French capital is the latest addition to the list of cities in the country protesting allegations of human rights abuses by migrant workers and environmental abuses in Qatar, host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Which cities in France are protesting?- Paris Boycotts FIFA 2022

The local authorities of Marseille, Lille, Bordeaux, Reims, Nancy, Rodez, and Paris have announced boycotts of the competition. Authorities speak of a “last-minute crisis of conscience”.

Benoît Payan, mayor of Marseille, who also heads a left-wing and environmentally conscious coalition, said: “This competition has gradually become a human and ecological disaster, incompatible with the values we live through sport and in particular want to teach football ‘ according to a report by The Guardian.

Benoît Payan, mayor of Marseille

According to the Associated Press, Paris deputy mayor in charge of sport, Pierre Rabadan, said the decision not to broadcast games to the public was due to “the conditions for the organization of this World Cup”. Both on an ecological and on a social level. In an interview with France Blue Paris, Rabadan said that “air-conditioned stadiums” and the “conditions under which these facilities were built must be questioned”.

Interestingly, the French capital’s soccer team, Paris Saint-Germain, has been owned by the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani since 2011.

What are the alleged violations in Qatar?- Paris Boycotts FIFA 2022

Ever since Qatar won the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup final, there have been protests over human rights abuses in the emirate. The Qatari royal family, led by Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, is one of the richest in the world. Under the country’s kafala system, which ties workers to a particular employer, workers building infrastructure for the World Cup have been abused, denied wages and trapped in a system from which of those who cannot escape cannot escape.

According to Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Trade Union Confederation, there have been reports of workers being unable to change jobs or even leave the country without their sponsor’s permission, and of “serious exploitation” of workers who had to sign false declarations that they had received their salary to recover their passports.

This, international watchdogs say, has created a de facto form of slavery for the more than one million migrant workers who live in Qatar. In addition to human rights, there have been reports of unreported carbon emissions and environmental hazards.

Carbon Market Watch (CMW), a non-profit organization that works closely with the European Union, said the World Cup in Qatar “is not delivering on its promises to reduce its carbon footprint. While the organizers claimed that the FIFA tournament in Qatar 2022 was the first “carbon neutral” World Cup, CMW has found in its report that the projected emissions were understated when examining the organizers’ plans. Being “carbon neutral” means all emissions are capped and offset, and CMW says the carbon footprint of building the seven new World Cup stadiums is “of particular concern”.

How are FIFA and Qatar handling the controversy?- Paris Boycotts FIFA 2022

Regarding environmental violations, FIFA dismissed CMW’s analyzes and allegations, stating that it was not appropriate to calculate emissions for the construction of the stadium based solely on its use at the World Cup. He added that there are “detailed legacy plans and business models” for post-tournament use of the stadiums.

“The organizers are committed to measuring, mitigating and offsetting all greenhouse gas emissions from the 2022 FIFA World Cup, while promoting low-carbon solutions in Qatar and the region. Therefore, FIFA has at no point misled its stakeholders, as the report claims,” said a FIFA spokesman after the report was released earlier this year.

Amid allegations of human rights abuses, the Qatari government has dismissed the Guardian’s revelation that 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have died in Qatar since Qatar won its World Cup bid. These workers, the report said, were not classified by occupation or place of work.

Qatari authorities said the figure was misleading because not all of the recorded deaths were from people working on World Cup-related projects. According to According to the government, the number of deaths outside of Qatar stood at 15,021 between 2010 and 2019. This includes all ages, occupations and causes.

However, Human Rights Watch has argued that it is difficult to provide a meaningful analysis of migrant worker deaths because the data is neither disaggregated nor complete.

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