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29 Mar 2018

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United2026 Bidding Nations Canada | Mexico | United States

United 2026 letter to the Human Rights Stakeholder Community

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On March 16th, we officially submitted the United Bid Book and all other required documentation to FIFA, including our proposal for a comprehensive United Human Rights Strategy...

On Monday, FIFA made the Bid Book public by publishing it on their website...

Section 23 of the United Bid Book contains our response to FIFA’s requirements on human rights and labor standards...

Our proposed strategy addresses potential human rights risks due to activities and business relationships occurring through the planning and staging of the 2026 FIFA World Cup™. We anticipate that by addressing these risks there will be significant legacies for human rights in connection to sporting events and in contexts not directly associated with the Competition...

For each of the [risk] areas, we [...] develop[ed] an approach for each area of our human rights strategy...

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