Update Statement from the FIFA Human Rights Advisory Board

In this update statement, the FIFA Human Rights Advisory Board provides a summary of the time sensitive advice they have given FIFA regarding the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia and evaluation of the bids for the FIFA World Cup 2026, and also of their views on the progress being made by FIFA in these areas. The Board and the secretariat have been closely tracking FIFA’s progress against the 33 specific recommendations from our September 2017 report. FIFA has met a number of those recommendations already, and implementation is ongoing or at advanced stages in many other cases.

Read the full statement here.