FIFA have locked in a controversial new sponsor for the Women's World Cup. 🏆 And Craig Foster is NOT happy. 😡 FIFA 9WWOS
The PIV also has a large stake in oil company Aramco, one of the main sponsors for Formula 1.
"Acceptance of Saudi sponsorship without acknowledgement of the accompanying human rights abuses is typical of FIFA and global sport right now and disgraceful in the extreme," Foster told the"The Australian Human Rights Commission formulated a report as mandated under FIFA's human rights policy which identified salient risks, including to journalists, for example.
"It's particularly galling that a nation that is listed on the global gender equality index at 127 out of 153 countries, has a legal system that entrenches gender discrimination against women and that issued a 34-year prison sentence to Salma Al-Shehab simply for tweets and retweets on human rights and political issues in Saudi Arabia now sponsors a women's sport tournament in a country proud of its push for equality across all sport.
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