{"id":19239,"date":"2022-03-31T17:31:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T17:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=19239"},"modified":"2022-03-31T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T17:31:26","slug":"concerns-raised-over-possible-risk-for-lgbtq-people-at-qatar-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/03\/31\/concerns-raised-over-possible-risk-for-lgbtq-people-at-qatar-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns raised over possible risk for LGBTQ+ people at Qatar World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Measures to ensure the safety of LGBTQ+ people in Qatar remain inadequate with less than eight months to go to the World Cup<\/a>, groups supporting the community have said.<\/p>\n

Same-sex relationships are directly criminalised under the laws of the Gulf state, leading to concerns over the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people visiting the country for the tournament and those from that community who reside there.<\/p>\n

An international grouping of 16 organisations focused on LGBTQ+ rights has issued eight action points to the tournament organisers Fifa and the local organising committee.<\/p>\n

These include repealing laws that target LGBTQ+ people, providing explicit safety guarantees to members of the community, guaranteed right of entry to Qatar, the communication of a clear welcome and of the right to free expression and ensuring there is no censorship or ban on the discussion of LGBTQ+ issues.<\/p>\n

The group said in a letter sent to the PA news agency that Fifa had responded in writing but that Qatar\u2019s Supreme Committee, in charge of World Cup delivery, had not yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cProgress has been slow, reassurances about the safety of LGBTIQ+ people and the mechanisms in place to ensure safety have not been adequate,\u201d the letter stated. \u201cIf acknowledgement of the issues facing LGBTIQ+ people in Qatar and reassurances of safety cannot be offered, we will be forced to question if the risk facing LGBTIQ+ people wanting to attend or work at the World Cup in Qatar is too high.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurther meetings are planned with both Fifa and the Supreme Committee in the coming weeks where it is hoped progress can be made.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter added that a failure to act in the run-up to the tournament could be viewed as an endorsement of the laws as they stand and make life for LGBTQ+ visitors and residents even tougher in the future.<\/p>\n

The groups who co-signed the letter were Athlete Ally, Discover Football, the European Gay and Lesbian Sports Association, the Fare network, the Federation of Gay Games, Football v Homophobia, Hidayah, the International Supporters Council, ILGA World, ILGA Asia, Leap Sports, Pride House International, MantiQitna, Mosaic, Queer Khaleeji and You Can Play.<\/p>\n

Nassar al-Khater, the Qatar World Cup chief executive, has previously said: \u201cI would like to assure any fan, of any gender, [sexual] orientation, religion, race to rest assured that Qatar is one of the most safe countries in the world \u2014 and they\u2019ll all be welcome here.\u201d<\/p>\n

He talked then about \u201ca lot of training going into security personnel\u201d and said: \u201cPublic displays of affection is frowned upon, it\u2019s not part of our culture \u2013 but that goes across the board to everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

the guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Measures to ensure the safety of LGBTQ+ people in Qatar remain inadequate with less than eight months to go to the World Cup, groups supporting the community have said. Same-sex relationships are directly criminalised under the laws of the Gulf state, leading to concerns over the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people visiting the country for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3295],"tags":[5274,8348,3513,12635,9505,5500,5247,11638,3577,7090,6560,5579,10954,12329,5712,8483,2717,7071,11973,8552,1359,6200,10379,5807,5655,7584,3954,10415,36,5248,594],"class_list":["post-19239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","category-world-sport","tag-asia","tag-ban","tag-culture","tag-delivery","tag-european","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-forced","tag-future","tag-games","tag-gay","tag-gulf","tag-international","tag-laws","tag-leap","tag-lesbian","tag-lgbtq","tag-nassar","tag-one","tag-qatar","tag-qater","tag-race","tag-religion","tag-risk","tag-security","tag-sex","tag-will","tag-work","tag-world","tag-world-cup","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}