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Report makes human-rights recommendations to FIFA

Professor John Ruggie has urged FIFA to place human rights guidelines at the heart of future tournaments and bidding processes.

The Harvard professor behind an independent report on FIFA's human-rights policies has presented a set of 25 recommendations to world football's governing body.

FIFA has come in for sustained criticism over its approach to human-rights issues, with reported conditions for migrant laborers working on stadia for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar coming in for particular scrutiny.

In the report, titled "For the Game. For the World," professor John Ruggie praised FIFA for making positive steps in the area by commissioning his work, but urged it to put words into practice at forthcoming tournaments and during future bidding processes.