“FOR THE GAME. FOR THE WORLD.” FIFA
HUMAN RIGHTS
John G. Ruggie Harvard University Harvard Kennedy School John G. Ruggie is the Berthold Corporate Responsibility Beitz Professor in Human Rights and Initiative CRInitiative.org. International Affairs at Harvard’s The Corporate Responsibility Kennedy School of Government and Initiative (CRI) at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar- Affiliated Professor in International Rahmani Center for Business and Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. Government (M-RCBG) is a multi- An award-winning scholar, he is a disciplinary and multi-stakeholder program that seeks to study and Fellow of the American Academy of enhance the public contributions Arts and Sciences. In the policy world, of private enterprise. he served as United Nations Assistant Shift Secretary-General for Strategic shiftproject.org Planning from 1997-2001, working Shift is the leading center of with Secretary-General Kofi Annan to expertise on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human create the UN Global Compact, propose Rights. Founded in 2011, Shift’s the Millennium Development Goals team of experts works globally with businesses, governments, and lead Annan’s UN reform initiatives. civil society and international From 2005-2011 he was the Secretary- organizations to embed the General’s Special Representative for Guiding Principles into practice. Business and Human Rights, in which capacity he developed the UN Guiding “FOR THE GAME. Principles on Business and Human FOR THE WORLD.” FIFA and Human Rights Rights, endorsed unanimously by Written by John G. Ruggie the UN Human Rights Council. This report was prepared at the His book reflecting on that experience, request of FIFA. The author of this report is solely responsible Just Business: Multinational Corporations for, and has sole editorial control and Human Rights (Norton, 2013), has of, its content. been translated into Chinese, Japanese, © 2016, President and Fellows of Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. Harvard College The material in this publication is Professor Ruggie is the Chair of copyrighted. Quoting, copying, and/ or reproducing portions or all of the Harvard Kennedy School this work is permitted provided the Corporate Responsibility Initiative following citation is used: and of Shift. Ruggie, John G. 2016. “FOR THE GAME. FOR THE WORLD.” FIFA and Human Rights. Corporate Responsibility Initiative Report No. 68. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Kennedy School. The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not imply endorsement by the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University or by FIFA. Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4
1. INTRODUCTION 6
2. THE UN GUIDING PRINCIPLES 10
3. FIFA STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES 15
4. ASSOCIATED SOURCES OF HUMAN RIGHTS RISKS 20
5. RECOMMENDATIONS 28
6. CONCLUSION 36
3 “FOR THE GAME. FOR THE WORLD.” FIFA AND HUMAN RIGHTS Executive Summary
In December 2015, FIFA asked me to develop recommendations on what it means for FIFA to embed respect for human rights across its global operations. The authoritative standard for doing so is the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (“UNGPs”), endorsed by the UN in June 2011, of which I was the author. This report first lays out the relevant human rights context for FIFA, and then presents 25 detailed recommendations for action. They fall broadly under three areas of necessary change: