A global group of trade unions is accusing Saudi Arabia of abusing migrant workers in a complaint filed Wednesday with a UN-backed labor organization, which comes as FIFA prepares to confirm the ...

Saudi Arabia has long faced allegations of labor abuses and wage theft tied to its Vision 2030 project, a big-money effort to diversify its economy beyond dependence on oil. FIFA shared with the ...

In March 2025, Muhammad Arshad, a Pakistani migrant worker in Saudi Arabia, fell to his death while working on the construction of Al Khobar’s Aramco Stadium, a 2034 FIFA World Cup and 2027 ...

ITUC Africa previously raised the fate of African migrant workers in Saudi Arabia with FIFA, but last January, soccer’s governing body in a letter from its general secretary Mattias Grafstrom ...

In the week that US President Donald Trump visited Saudi Arabia to sign deals worth hundreds of billions of dollars, a rights group published its investigation of deaths of migrant workers in the ...

A group of international lawyers has filed a formal complaint to FIFA claiming the soccer body is failing to uphold its human rights policy with 2034 World Cup host Saudi Arabia.

FIFA shared with the AP a letter it sent Human Rights Watch last month defending the selection of Saudi Arabia as host of the 2034 World Cup.

Rights groups say migrant workers are dying on Saudi job sites as kingdom prepares for World Cup by: GABE LEVIN, Associated Press Posted: May 14, 2025 / 04:09 AM EDT Updated: May 14, 2025 / 04:10 ...

The details of the investigations from Human Rights Watch and FairSquare come a day after FIFA President Gianni Infantino joined U.S. President Donald Trump on his official visit to Saudi Arabia ...