With less than 100 days before the World Cup, none of the 31 qualified federations has yet endorsed the PayUpFifa campaign, leading to criticism from human rights groups that the game is shirking its “responsibility” as part of mere “checkbox exercises”. The initiative is a collective call by such bodies for Fifa to match the £360m Qatar 2022 prize money with compensation to migrant workers who have suffered human rights abuses in the preparations for the tournament.
To add to that, just over a third of qualified nations have conducted proper consultations with human rights groups about this World Cup, and only four of those have allowed such bodies to directly speak to players.
