At least 17 construction workers have died and many others have faced exploitation and labor abuses while building stadiums for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.
The report also said that FIFA, soccer’s corruption-plagued governing body, lacked transparency and had failed to demonstrate that its monitoring system had effectively identified, prevented and corrected stadium labor conditions.
“FIFA is still in its post-corruption catharsis, but this feels, unfortunately, like more of the same mode,” Jane Buchanan, the author of the Human Rights Watch report and a researcher on Russia, said in an interview.