{"id":71794,"date":"2025-05-14T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/may\/14\/pressure-grows-on-fifa-as-reports-warn-of-serious-risk-to-workers-amid-saudi-world-cup-building-boom"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T04:00:02","slug":"pressure-grows-on-fifa-as-reports-warn-of-serious-risk-to-workers-amid-saudi-world-cup-building-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71794","title":{"rendered":"Pressure grows on Fifa as reports warn of serious risk to workers amid Saudi World Cup building boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two reports published today catalogue \u2018gruesome yet avoidable accidents\u2019 on construction sites despite the Gulf kingdom\u2019s claims that<em> <\/em>work-related deaths have fallen<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of migrant workers are likely to die in Saudi Arabia as a result of a building boom fuelled by the 2034 World Cup and other major construction projects, human rights groups have warned.<\/p>\n<p>The Gulf kingdom has seen a surge in demand for cheap migrant labour, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/gulfmigration.grc.net\/saudi-arabia-employed-population-by-nationality-saudi-non-saudi-and-sex-q1-2017-q3-2024\/\">significant increase in foreign workers<\/a> since 2021, as it starts preparations for hosting the World Cup and drives forward projects including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/10\/the-line-saudi-arabia-scaling-back-plans-105-mile-long-desert-megacity-crown-prince\">futurist megacity Neom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/may\/14\/pressure-grows-on-fifa-as-reports-warn-of-serious-risk-to-workers-amid-saudi-world-cup-building-boom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two reports published today catalogue \u2018gruesome yet avoidable accidents\u2019 on construction sites despite the Gulf kingdom\u2019s claims that work-related deaths have fallenThousands of migrant workers are likely to die in Saudi Arabia as a result of a buildin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1552,627,1022,59,212,640,241,398,3272,61,203,2428,2430,3271,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fifa","category-football","category-football-politics","category-global-development","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-migration-and-development","category-nepal","category-saudi-arabia","category-saudi-arabia-and-sport","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-workers-rights","category-world-cup","category-world-cup-2034","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71802,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71794\/revisions\/71802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}