Human rights groups have urged sponsors of FIFA and the Qatar 2022
World Cup to use their influence to press football's global governing
body to compensate migrant workers abused during preparations for its
flagship event.
Airline pay strikes continue to sweep Europe in Spain, Romania, Germany, Portugal; civil servants, firefighters and teachers in one-day national walkout in Kosovo; rolling strikes by Dutch railway workers over conditions and cost of living begin; 2,700 teachers walk out in Norway over pay and staff shortage; waste and recycling workers’ stoppages sweep Scotland as rubbish piles up in streets; Qatar government deports migrant workers after arresting them for protesting non-payment of wages; National one-day stoppage in South Africa against plunging living standards;
One striker shot dead and three hospitalised by security guards at council in Middelburg, South Africa