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Human rights experts warn against possible threats ahead of FIFA World Cup

Human rights experts are warning against possible threats ahead of next year’s FIFA World Cup, highlighting the need to protect immigrant communities, foreign visitors and the journalists covering the games.

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00:00Human rights experts are warning against possible threats ahead of next year's FIFA World Cup,
00:05highlighting the need to protect immigrant communities, foreign visitors, and the journalists covering the games.
00:11This comes as the U.S. immigration and customs enforcement has led to the expulsion of thousands of illegal migrants in the U.S.
00:19The World Cup does not become a pretext for stifling dissent or expanding mass surveillance.
00:26Every player, fan, journalist, and resident has the right to participate and protest without fear of sanction,
00:35arbitrary detention, or any sort of discriminatory treatment, and in this case also of deportation.
00:41And with U.S. President Donald Trump ramping up immigration enforcement across the country,
00:46there is fear that federal law enforcement officers will arrest workers and even travelers during the games.
00:52This has indeed raised fears among some football enthusiasts.
00:55FIFA has repeatedly promised that the world is welcome in America, in the United States.
01:00But without clear, forceful advocacy and action from FIFA, those words ring hollow.
01:07FIFA must use its influence to call on the U.S. government to uphold human rights,
01:12end discriminatory travel bans, and stop immigration enforcement actions that target communities
01:17where matches will take place in particular.
01:19The longer FIFA stays silent or doesn't do enough, the greater the risk that their brand and event
01:27will become part of a public relations tool to normalize an increasingly authoritarian U.S. government.
01:34FIFA's suggestions for the 2026 plans include guidelines on non-discrimination security,
01:39preventing trafficking, protecting unhoused people and workers' rights, including for migrant workers.
01:45FIFA's suggestions for the 2026 plans for the 2026 plans for the 2026 plans for the 2026 plans.
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