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Qatar: World Cup VS Human Rights
Published Nov 20, 2022
Updated Nov 20, 2022
Culture
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Culture
Published Nov 20, 2022
Updated Nov 20, 2022
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Qatar: World Cup VS Human Rights
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With just days to go before the highly anticipated 2022 FIFA World Cup commences, all eyes are on oil-rich Qatar, the World Cup hosts. In fact, since FIFA announced in 2010 that Qatar won the bid to host the 2022 World Cup, controversy has stirred over its legitimacy as a host nation, in light of myriad allegations of human rights violations. The German tabloid Bild responded to the move by printing the headline “Qatarstrophe,” claiming that only petro-wealth and corruption could have influenced the Persian Gulf kingdom’s selection. “The only explanation for this decision is that FIFA sold the World Cup to the sheiks of the mini-state in the desert,” noted Bild. “There is no other explanation.”
Twelve years later, much of that sentiment endures. Pop star Dua Lipa denied she was
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