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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Dan Kilpatrick

Amnesty says FIFA and Qatar must pay £355m to ‘abused’ migrant World Cup workers

FIFA should pay at least $440million (£355.1m) in reparations to the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers who have suffered human rights abuses during preparations for the Qatar World Cup, a new report by Amnesty International has said.

The figure, which is the same as the World Cup's total prize fund, would compensate workers and their families for unpaid wages, recruitment fees, injuries and deaths while working on the stadiums and related infrastructure projects for tournament since 2010.

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