Nations urged to speak out against Saudi Arabia hosting 2034 World Cup: ‘A deafening silence’

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Football associations should not stay silent on Saudi Arabia hosting the World Cup 2034 out of “political convenience”, Amnesty International has said. They can’t be dropped when it becomes politically convenient.” Saudi Arabia’s bid was handed a record score in a Fifa evaluation report published late last Friday night and deemed ‘medium risk’ for human rights. open image in gallery Human Rights Watch has obtained data for a report published on Wednesday from the Bangladeshi government, which found 887 migrant workers from the south Asian country had died in Saudi Arabia between January and July of this year alone. In June, Building and Wood Workers International filed two separate formal complaints about Saudi Arabia to the International Labour Organisation, related to allegations of severe human rights abuses and wage theft involving at least 21,000 construction workers.