The national coach of Belgium, Roberto Martinez, ensured this Thursday the boycott of one of the participating teams in Qatar World Cup “it would not be an act of courage” and he compared it to “looking the other way”, while, he considered, going to the country “would help bring Middle East ideas on human rights and labor “.
In an interview with a Belgian newspaper Le Soir, Martinez ensured that the Belgian Football Federation “respects all views” and urged “talk to experts” to “form an opinion” about the holding of the competition in Qatar, where international organizations have denounced human rights violations human and abused the jobs of thousands of migrant workers in organizing the event.
In any case, he rejected the boycott of the teams and, although he acknowledged that some of his sponsors had decided to take that path, he pointed out that others had decided to “act to improve the situation in taste relying on trade unions and Amnesty International ”.
“Looking the other way when there is a problem is not an act of courage. Courage is convinced that you can bring change to this society. If we can bring ideas about human rights and labor in Middle East, then it will be worth it. In this World Cup, Qatar will be the center of the world for more than a month, ”the Belgian coach said.
Martinez He explained that he himself asked the experts “if the boycott would be the solution” and made sure they replied that it was “the worst thing that could be done.”
Furthermore, he said, “according to Amnesty International and the unions, the situation in taste He has improved over the past two years as the World Cup approaches.
Amnesty International reported that taste approved in 2018 a series of important labor reforms aimed at improving workers’ rights, but warned that “the lack of application of the law perpetuates abuses” and that in the last decade hundreds of thousands of migrants ” has faced human rights abuses during the construction of the necessary infrastructure to host the 2022 World Cup ”.
“Most migrant workers are in qatar, for example, they paid illegal recruitment fees of more than $ 1,300 on average per worker to get a job, whereas before 2020, everyone was restricted in their ability to change jobs or leave the country, ”explains Amnesty International.
In the interview, Martinez In any case, he asked to make sure “things continue to evolve” in terms of human rights after the World Cup.
Source: La Verdad
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