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Ɖ Gardịn vy on C’tar’z Wrldcup: jsćrz r nt inuf
(Transcription of an editorial published in the Guardian on 3 October 2022)
Wrld ftbōl’z guṿnñbodi śd hīd cōlz t compnset abyzd mîgṛnt wrcrz
Munde 3 Octobr 2022
Ɖr r nǎ les ɖn 50 dez t ɖ Wrldcup in C’tar, ẃć pṛmotrz hv tecn t dscrîbñ az a trṇmnt “lîc no uɖr”. Fr wns ɖ PR hîp z jusṭfaid, n nt onli bcz ɖ maćz wl b pleid jrñ ɖ līd-up t Crisṃs rɖr ɖn in sumr. Ɖ dsiźn t stej ɖ planit’s bigist sportñ ivnt in a cuntri wɖ a ntorịsli pur hymn-rîts record z pṛvocñ unpresdntd qīzinis amñ cmpitñ neśnz.
Last wīc, in cnjuñśn wɖ ɖ citmańfacćrr Hummel, ɖ Deniś ftbōl feḍreśn unveild a plen ol-blac ʈrd cit fr ɖ trṇmnt. It wz dzînd, sd Hummel, in meṃri v ɖ mni mîgṛnt wrcrz hu daid jrñ cnstrux́nwrc in ɖ yirz līdñ p t ɖ fînlz. Ɖ captinz v sm Yṛpiyn tīmz – includñ Ñgḷnd’z Hari Cên – em t wer renbo “Wn Luv” armbandz, simḅlîzñ opziśn t dscriṃneśn in a cuntri ẃr hoṃsx́l acts r ilīgl. Ɖ Jrmn feḍreśn invîtd a ge fan t yz its platform at an ivnt t adres ɖ C’tari ambasdr on ɖ subjict v LGBT rîts. Abdŭla ben Mhamed ben Saud Al Tāni rportidli rspondd ɖt hymn-rîts iśuz wr dstractñ fṛm ɖ trṇmnt.
T ɖ xtnt ɖt ɖs z tru, it z v cors a gd ʈñ. Hî-profîl jsćrz bî cumṗniz sć az Hummel r far betr ɖn nʈñ at ol. Bt tîm z runñ ǎt fr ɖ cnd v ax́n ɖt cd līv a lastñ poẓtiv leġsi fṛm a Wrldcup ɖt śd nvr hv bn awordd t ɖz hosts. Ftbōl z a globl gem n a trṇmnt in ɖ Midl Īst z dzîṛbl in prínsipl, bt ɖs z nt ɖ we.
Wɖ justiḟceśn, C’tari oʈoṛtiz clem ɖe hv rspondd t preśr t rform brūṭli xplôttiv cndiśnz fr mîgṛnt wrcrz. Ɖ hetd cfāḷsistm, fr xampl – ẃć taid a wrcr t a sngl imployr – hz gn, n atmts hv bn md t compnset fr unpeid wejz n intṛdys minimmpe. Bt ɖ lêtist in a siriz v Gardịn invstgeśnz, publiśt last munʈ, faund ɖt, dspt hî-levl iniṣ́tivz n ri’śuṛnsz, abysiv pracṭsz wr stl rîf on ɖ grǎnd. Mîgṛnt wrcrz at ɖ Al Bîit stedịm, ẃr Ñgḷnd wl ple ɖ YSA on 25 Nvmbr, hd bn oblîjd t pe hyj ilīgl rcrūtmntfīz n livd fr munʈs in unfit, oṿcrǎdd acoṃdeśn, rnñ £1 an aur. Elsẃr, lebrrz spouc v 12-aur śifts, six dez a wīc, wɖt propr oṿtîmpe. A clîṃt v fir inhibtd mni fṛm spīcñ ǎt abt cndiśnz. Mîgṛnt wrcrz hu hv rtrnd hom ahd v ɖ Wrldcup se ɖe wr snt bac bfr fiṇśñ ɖer contracts or wɖt rsivñ ol ɖe clem ɖe wr oud.
A rīsnt YGuv poul, cmiśnd bî Amṇsti Inṭnaśnl, faund hyj s’port fr a compnseśnfund fr mîgṛnt wrcrz hu hv bn mstrītd, n fr ɖ reḷtivz v ɖoz hu daid. Amṇsti, alñ wɖ uɖr hymn-rîts grūps, r campenñ fr Fifa, wrld ftbōl’z guṿnñbodi, t set p sć a fund yzñ a frax́n v antiṣpetd profits v $7bn. Ɖ amǎnt pṛpozd z $440m – iqivḷnt t Wrldcup prîzmuni on ofr. Aftr pṛloñd hezteśn, ɖ Ñgliś FA hz nǎ bact ɖ prínsipl v a fund, az hv hî-profîl figrz in ftbōl sć az ɖ Duć naśnl-tīm manijr, Lui van Gaal, n ɖ Bṛzil coć, Tite. Fifa hz sd it z ʈncñ abt it. It’s tîm t stop ʈncñ n act.
