Red card : exploitation of construction workers on World Cup sites in Russia / [written by Jane Buchanan].

[New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, [2017]

JC599.R8 B83 2017

Exploitation of construction workers on World Cup sites in Russia

9781623134822
162313482X

37 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm

(OCoLC)995844233

Recommendations: To the Russian Government -- To FIFA: With respect to World Cup 2018 in Russia -- With respect to FIFA's general human rights commitments -- Methodology -- I. Background: Russia as host of FIFA World Cup 2018 -- Persistent labor abuses in Russia's construction industry -- Workers and the 2018 World Cup: Deaths and serious injuries -- Strikes and other protest actions -- II. Exploitation of Workers: Failure to provide employment contracts -- Wage-related abuses -- Working in extreme cold -- III. Intimidation and Retaliation: Intimidation and retaliation against workers -- Intimidation and detention of a Human Rights Watch researcher -- IV. FIFA and Human Rights: FIFA's growing recognition of its human rights responsibilities: Workers' rights and World Cup 2018 -- V. International Legal Standards: Corporate Responsibility -- Acknowledgments.
"This report documents how workers on six World Cup stadium construction sites faced unpaid wages either in full or part, several months' delays in payment of wages, work in temperatures as cold as -25 degrees Celsius without sufficient protections, and employers' failure to provide work contracts required for legal employment"--Publisher's description.

"June 14, 2017"--Table of contents page.
"This report was written by Jane Buchanan, associate director in the Europe and Central Asia division of Human Rights Watch"-- Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available on the Human Rights Watch website.

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