FIFA’s World Cup Ignores a Child Labor Nightmare

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Migrant workers at a construction site amid scorching heat in the Saudi capital Riyadh, on June 16, 2022. © 2022 FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP via Getty Images 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 Asian Football Confederation Cup facility. Arshad’s death and the loss of his income leaves his family, including three sons under age eight, without their sole line of support.As we mark World Day Against Child Labor,…

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