International human rights activists have criticized the announcement by the Legacy Fund of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar that it will provide $50 million in aid to the families of low-wage migrant workers who were injured and died during the construction of Qatar's World Cup infrastructure, without providing compensation to other areas.

From 2010 to 2022, the families of 2,000 Nepalis who lost their lives during the construction of infrastructure related to the World Cup in Qatar are waiting for compensation from Qatar. 

On November 12, FIFA and Qatar announced that the 2022 FIFA World Cup Legacy Fund will be used for refugees, occupational health and safety, education and football development to the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). 50 million dollars has been agreed. 

2022 World Cup football legacy fund contrary to FIFA's announcement to provide fair compensation to exploited workers and the families of deceased workers. And the international human rights organizations announced that the

has been strongly opposed by the Amnesty International's head of labor rights and sports. The latest agreement between FIFA and Qatar is shameful The much-anticipated legacy fund has been announced without recognizing its clear responsibility for the migrant workers who have been exploited and lost their lives to make the World Cup possible A shameful situation for FIFA and Qatar," said a statement issued by Cockburn. "It is important to provide support to global efforts to protect refugees and workers from the effects of high heat. But more than that, the fund's first priority is to provide compensation to families in poverty who have lost their loved ones in Qatar.

FIFA also ignored the policy conclusions of its own human rights subcommittee report, Cockburn said. FIFA set up an independent subcommittee in March 2023 to determine whether it was liable for compensation. The subcommittee's report, published on 14 November, concluded that FIFA had a responsibility to ensure compensation for injured workers.

Two days before the publication of this report, FIFA and Qatar announced the amount of support provided by the fund. The fund has failed to provide compensation to the injured workers and their families in Qatar. As long as FIFA keeps its head in the sand, the affected workers and their families will continue to suffer," said Cockburn. 

Amnesty International has been demanding that FIFA allocate at least 440 million dollars to compensate the millions of workers who were exploited because Qatar was allowed to host the World Cup without the development of labor protection to ensure the human rights of migrant workers working in Qatar in 2010. FIFA received $7.5 billion from the Qatar World Cup. The size of the amount deposited in the legacy fund has not been made public. 

Human Rights Watch, another human rights monitoring organization, has also stated that FIFA and Qatar have the responsibility to compensate the families of workers who died in Qatar due to unknown reasons. Watch says that even though the 2022 World Cup will end in Qatar, the wounds of the families affected by this will not be erased.

FIFA should have given proper compensation to the families of the deaths and unpaid wages in Qatar. FIFA got it wrong. "Fifa will always look down on the victims of labor and their families who made the World Cup possible," said Michael Page, Middle East Director of Human Rights Watch. 

Millions of Nepali workers were employed in the construction of infrastructure including stadiums for the World Cup. It took about 10 years to complete that infrastructure. According to the Nepali Embassy in Doha, 2,699 workers died in Qatar by the time the construction of infrastructure for the World Cup started (2010) and was completed (2022). A large number of them are found dead while sleeping in the camp after excessive labor.

It is mentioned that there are natural causes behind the death of 424 people. The number of Nepali workers who lost their lives at the workplace is 195, and the number of those who lost their lives in road accidents is 277. It is said that 253 died by suicide, 438 by illness due to kidney failure, 788 by heart attack, 25 by murder, and 267 by other causes. But the cause of death of 32 people has not been revealed. 

Most of the families of workers who died while working in Qatar have not received compensation. When Qatar issues a death certificate without conducting a serious investigation into the migrant workers who have died, the families of the deceased are deprived of the compensation provided by the local labor law. Amnesty's report mentions that there is no study of Qatar on deaths caused by long working hours, heavy manual labor and heat.

 There is no legal provision in Qatar to compensate the family in case of death due to natural causes. Hundreds of Nepalese families are still waiting for compensation. The family of Tul Bahadur Gharti of Lungri rural municipality-7 of Rolpa has not yet received compensation.

Tul Bahadur used to work as scaffolding at the World Cup stadium. Tul Bahadur's wife Vipana says that even after four years of Tul Bahadur's death, no official cause of death has been given. In the medical report, the cause of Tul Bahadur's death was mentioned as 'natural causes of heart and lungs not working'.