Shared Responsibility and Human Rights Abuse: The 2022 World Cup in Qatar

Raquel Regueiro

doi:10.5334/tilr.191

Abstract

Since 2010, recurrent human rights violations of migrants working on building new or refurbishing existing infrastructure for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar have been denounced. This paper focuses on three of the main actors involved in those violations—Qatar, FIFA and Switzerland—in order to determine how shared responsibility could be a useful framework to ensure protection of and reparation to the victims. The article also raises serious questions about the application of shared responsibility and the effective enforcement of human rights when non-state actors are involved.

Highlights

Since Qatar won hosting rights for the 2022 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup in 2010, recurrent human rights violations of migrants working on building or refurbishing infrastructure for the tournament have been denounced
This paper focuses on three of the main actors involved in those violations—Qatar, FIFA and Switzerland—in order to determine how shared responsibility could be a useful framework to ensure p rotection of and reparation to the victims
Since Qatar won hosting rights for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in 2010, recurrent human rights violations of migrants working on building or refurbishing infrastructure for the tournament have been denounced

Summary

Raquel Regueiro*

Since 2010, recurrent human rights violations of migrants working on building new or refurbishing existing infrastructure for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar have been denounced. This paper focuses on three of the main actors involved in those violations—Qatar, FIFA and Switzerland—in order to determine how shared responsibility could be a useful framework to ensure p rotection of and reparation to the victims. The article raises serious questions about the application of shared responsibility and the effective enforcement of human rights when non-state actors are involved

Introduction

Findings

Shared Responsibility and Human Rights Abuse