Builders who build the 11 new stadiums of Saudi Arabia for the World Cup, have fallen to death – from dissolution to death teams.
Human rights Groups have warned of a frightening “rise” in the death of migrant construction workers in the Central Eastern region is preparing to organize the 2034 tournament.
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After being confirmed as the host of the 2034 men football World Cup in December, Saudi -Arabia Things throw dozens of billions of pounds at crazy construction projects – including a whole megacity.
In preparation, the Saudi’s plans have revealed Build or Upgrade 15 Futuristic Stadiums – 11 of them will be completely new.
Although the cup has been removed for nine years, workers who build the locations die, in terrible but prevented incidents, reports from Human Rights Watch and Fairsquare Claim.
It only comes one day after the president of FIFA Gianni Infantino visited Saudi -Arabia Next to the US President Donald Trump While the couple attended a US-Saudi Investment Forum.
Human Rights Watch was able to speak with the Hearbreat families of 31 employees from Bangaldesh, India And Nepal.
Their relatives fell from heights at the locations, were crushed or beheaded by heavy machines or elektrocuted.
But Saudi medical authorities rarely carry out autopsies to establish the exact cause of the death of migrating employees, Fairsquare Claims.
A few months ago, a Pakistani foreman, Muhammad Arshad, would have been reported of a construction site in a stadium under construction in the eastern city Al Khobar.
The tragic death of Muhammad marked the first related to the World Cup – with much more to follow.
One widow of a 46-year-old Bengalian man who worked in Saudi Arabia told the Human Rights Watch that her husband was shocked at the workplace.
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She said: “According to his colleagues and the foreman, he saw a mechanical problem with the machine he was active.
“He turned off the machine to repair it and tried to remove a stone that was stuck in it when someone accidentally turned on the machine again. His head was caught inside and he died on the spot.”
The grieving woman added that when her husband’s body arrived in Bangladesh, “his head was separated from his body”, which resulted in her loss of consciousness “to see him in that state”.
And another widow of a 25-year-old Nepalese man revealed that despite the fact that her husband is being electrocuted at work, his death is “officially classified as a natural death”.
She added: “We did not receive my husband’s dead body, but were informed instead that his last rites were already done in Saudi Arabia without our permission. This brought us further pain.
“We believe that this was all an extensive plan to take away from compensation. There are so many questions unanswered.
‘Who gave them permission to bury [my husband] Instead of repatriating [his] body? Witnesses say that death was caused by electrocution. “
With many deaths from employees who are wrongly classified as natural, grieving families have not received any compensation, the reports claim.
The director of the Human Rights Watch of Global Initiatives Minky are said: “The Saudi World Cup 2034 will be the largest and most expensive ever, but it can also have the highest costs for human lives, because millions of migrating employees build infrastructure, including 11 new stadiums, a rail and transit network and 185,000 hotel room.”
FIFA says it has a “steadfast dedication to the protection and promotion of human rights in the context of its activities”.
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In 2024, the Saudi government defended that there had been “tangible performance” in professional health And safety, claiming that the number of deaths and injuries fell among employees.
And FIFA praised the alleged “significant steps“Saudi Arabia taken to improve his labor laws since 2018.
But the trade union of the Global Construction Worker, or BWI, revealed that there was an “alarming increase” of accidents that could have been prevented.
BWI Secretary -General Ambet Yuson said: “These are the result of systematic negligence, corruption and insufficient supervision and accountability.”
And Fairsquare’s co-director James Lynch has described FIFA’s human rights policy as a “sham”.
He added: “While Fifa Saudi Arabia praises with the trusses and highly paid western law Companies generate enormous profits for putting together Saudi’s reputation, children grow up in places like Nepal without their fathers and never even learn how they died. “
FIFA told Human Rights Watch to his plans to set up the welfare system of an employees to ensure mandatory standards and enforcement mechanisms are devoted to construction with regard to the World Cup. As well as services in Saudi Arabia.
The worldwide administrative body of football said: “We are convinced that the measures that are being implemented to ensure that construction companies respect the rights of their employees on FIFA World Cup sites, be able to set a new standard for employee protection in the country and contribute to the broader labor process, which can be enhanced the protection for employees.”
But Human Rights Watch hit FIFA and said that no further details were given about how the so -called welfare system would actually work.
The group said: “Saudi authorities, FIFA and other employers must ensure that all deaths by migrating employees, regardless of the observed cause, time and place, are properly investigated and that families of deceased employees are treated with dignity and receive fair and timely compensation.”
Eight stadiums are being built in the capital Riyad, four in Jeddah, and one in each of Al Khobar, Abha and Neom.
Neom is the Brand new £ 1 trillion desert mega city The province plans to rebuild all the way – and half of which will float in the ocean.
However, there have been worries The city will not be finished on time.
They are also promising Look up the largest airport in the worldKing Fahd International Airport, which will be opened in 2030.
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