Ninety U.S.-based civil society groups have warned FIFA that it risks becoming a “public relations tool to whitewash the reputation of an increasingly authoritarian government”, in a joint letter that calls on FIFA to publicly urge the US government to reverse immigration policies and practices introduced by the Trump administration. The letter describes how repressive […]| FairSquare
A group of leading scholars, including numerous professors of international law, have today written to FIFA’s Governance Audit and Compliance Committee (GAAC), in relation to the committee’s examination of a complaint relating to the holding of matches in Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The Palestine Football Association (PFA) first complained to FIFA in […]| FairSquare
NGOs, academics, writers, whistleblowers and football supporters’ groups are among those who today condemned serious ongoing misgovernance at football’s world governing body FIFA in a joint statement published on the ten year anniversary of the notorious arrests of senior FIFA officials in Switzerland.| FairSquare
FIFA’s ongoing failure to enforce sanctions against the Israeli Football Association (IFA) despite long-standing and irrefutable evidence that the IFA is in violation of FIFA Statutes is further evidence of the organisation’s ad hoc and selective enforcement of its rules. At its 75th annual Congress held in Paraguay on 15 May – twelve years after […] The post FIFA continues to stall and misrepresent over Israel sanctions appeared first on FairSquare.| FairSquare
A FairSquare report has found that there is a critical absence of effective policies and processes to determine the cause of migrant worker deaths in Saudi Arabia, and concluded that the surge of construction associated with projects such as NEOM and the 2034 men’s World Cup will in all likelihood lead to thousands of unexplained deaths of low-paid foreign workers in the country.| FairSquare
FairSquare is offering its full support to a proposal, made this week by eminent legal scholars, for the European Union to regulate sport, which outlines the possible text of a European Sports Act.| FairSquare
A major new report from FairSquare, published today, identifies serious structural flaws within FIFA, football’s global governing body, that have resulted in the organisation contributing to a wide range of social harms, not least very serious and systematic human rights abuses, and that preclude it from fulfilling one of its core stated objectives of developing […]| FairSquare