{"id":88921,"date":"2022-08-11T11:20:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T09:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test2023.luxus-plus.com\/?p=88921"},"modified":"2025-09-23T18:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:01:33","slug":"qatar-is-the-world-cup-neglecting-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/qatar-is-the-world-cup-neglecting-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"[Luxus Magazine] Qatar: Is the World Cup neglecting human rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>If the soccer World Cup is in the news this year, it is not only for the expected matches and the stakes, but rather for human rights reasons.<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> 2022 World Cup<\/strong> will be held in<strong> Qatar<\/strong> from November 21 to December 18, with a Senegal-Netherlands match as the opening match. But the Cup will surely have some absentees. Indeed, <strong>Philipp Lahm<\/strong>, member of the German soccer delegation, indicated in an interview with <strong><em>Kicker<\/em><\/strong>, that he would not accompany the German selection in Qatar. The former captain of the 2014 world champions, pleaded political reasons <em>&#8220;I prefer to stay home. Human rights should play a more important role in the awarding of competitions.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He questioned the criteria for <strong>FIFA<\/strong>&#8216;s decisions to award the World Cup to Qatar: <em>&#8220;This should not happen again in the future. Human rights, the size of the country &#8230; all this seems not to have been taken into account.&#8221;<\/em> He also addresses his counterparts: <em>&#8220;As players, you can no longer pretend you don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/em> he adds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10885\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10886\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/Stade_Lusail_Coupe_du_monde_2022_Qatar_IntC3A9rieur.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"1315\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Stade Lusail \u00a9 FIFA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/qatar-is-the-world-cup-neglecting-human-rights\/?lang=en\">here<\/a> to read the full article on Luxus Plus Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Featured photo : \u00a9 FIFA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the soccer World Cup is in the news this year, it is not only for the expected matches and the stakes, but rather for human rights reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":88923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"If the soccer World Cup is in the news this year, it is not only for the expected matches and the stakes, but rather for human rights reasons.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"qatar,doha,football,soccer,World Cup,football world cup,FIFA,player,humain rights,rights,workers,Philipp Lahm","footnotes":""},"categories":[22488],"tags":[24191,23468,23393],"class_list":["post-88921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-en","tag-luxus-plus-mag-en-2","tag-qatar-en","tag-sport-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}