It has been rumored that Dua Lipa will be performing at the World Cup in Qatar, which will begin later this month. The singer, on the other hand, has shot down these rumors.
The British pop artist informed her followers on Sunday, via a message that was published on her Instagram Stories, that she will not be attending the FIFA event, which has been the subject of calls to boycott.
The treatment of migrant workers in Qatar has raised concerns about human rights violations in the country. Amnesty International has compared the working and living conditions in Qatar to those of forced labor and the country has come under fire for them. Workers’ injuries and deaths have been attributed to the conditions, while the exact number of deaths is disputed.
Additionally, the LGBTQ community has criticized the country’s laws that prohibit gay sexual relations as being discriminatory against its members. Former international footballer and ambassador for Qatar, Khalid Salman, stated that homosexuality is “haram,” or banned, and called it “damage to the mind,” in an interview with German television station ZDF.
Human rights advocate Rasha Younes, senior LGBT rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, harshly criticized Salman’s remarks, calling them “harmful and unacceptable.”
“There is now a lot of rumor that I will be performing at the opening ceremony of the World Cup in Qatar,” Lipa, who is 27 years old, tweeted. “I will not be performing… nor have I ever been part of any discussion to perform,” she said.
Despite the fact that the singer is not completely skipping out on the games (she stated that she “would be cheering England on from afar”), she did make a reference to worries around human rights.
“I look forward to seeing Qatar when it has achieved all of the human rights obligations it made when it won the right to host the World Cup,” she continued. “I am very optimistic about the future of human rights in Qatar.”
Lipa has not been shy in expressing their opinions on various political issues. In 2018, the singer known for her hit “One Kiss” expressed her “horrification” at the fact that concertgoers flying LGBTQ pride flags were kicked out of a show in Shanghai by security.
In addition, the year before, she denounced as “appalling” an advertisement that had been published in the New York Times and that had accused her, along with Anwar Hadid’s sisters Gigi and Bella Hadid, of being antisemitic.
In reaction to the contentious advertisement that was released by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s World Values Network, she published on social media the following statement: “I absolutely reject the false and disgusting charges.” “This is the price you pay for defending Palestinian human rights against an Israeli government whose actions in Palestine both Human Right Watch and the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem accuse of persecution and discrimination.” — “This is the price you pay for defending Palestinian human rights against an Israeli government.”
And she’s not the only musician out there with strong opinions towards Qatar. Rod Stewart disclosed this information in a recent interview with the Sunday Times. He stated that he had turned down the offer to perform in the country.
‘I was actually given a lot of money to play there, over a million dollars, 15 months ago,’ Stewart claimed. ‘I turned it down. “I decreased the volume. It would be inappropriate to go. And the Iranians ought to be held accountable as well because of the arms trade.”
From November 20 to December 18, Qatar will host the FIFA World Cup, bringing approximately 1.2 million tourists and $17 billion in additional revenue. However, former FIFA president Sepp Blatter referred to the World Cup in Qatar as a “mistake” and suggested that the United States should have hosted it instead.
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