Thursday 17 and Friday 18 November, The world dedicates two days to the debates raised by the organization of the world cup 2022 in Qatar (November 20-December 18). Corruption, human rights, the environment… Journalists, researchers and NGOs will answer your questions about the scandals linked to the organization of the World Cup.
The first part of this second day will be dedicated to human rights, and more particularly to the conditions of treatment of the workers mobilized to prepare for the World Cup. Quentin Müller, journalist specializing in the Arabian Peninsula, co-author of the book The tanker’s slaves (ed. Marchialy), will answer your questions starting at 11:30 am
This afternoon, a look back at the environmental damage and carbon footprint of this World Cup. Can we still organize this type of event without major ecological damage? Mael Besson, former head of ecological transition at the French Ministry of Sports and former WWF sports spokesperson, and Stéphane Mandard, journalist for Planet of the Worldwill lead the chat starting at 3 pm
Thursday, The world had questioned the boycott dilemma of the competition, with Lola Schulman, defender of Amnesty International France, and Carole Gomez, specialist in sports geopolitics, before resuming the suspicions of corruption that hang over the concession of the World Cup to Qatar with our journalist Rémi Dupré.
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Video survey. The 2022 World Cup “carbon neutral”? What’s behind Qatar’s unsustainable promises
Podcast. Ecology, human rights, corruption: why the World Cup in Qatar 2022 is a problem
Editorial. FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar: lessons from a counterexample
special file. All our articles dedicated to the World Cup can be found here
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