FIFA’s human rights advisors on Thursday criticised a lack of transparency over the condition of workers on World Cup projects in Russia, highlighting the plight of North Koreans reportedly building facilities.
In its first report, FIFA’s newly-branded Human Rights Advisory Board issued a warning over “significant risks to workers’ rights in the final phases of the construction in Russia”.FIFA admitted in May that it had evidence that North Koreans were working on venue construction in St. Petersburg.
The revelations raised alarm as Stalinist North Korea is known to export workers to projects where slave-like conditions are enforced.
