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Advocates urge release of LA’s World Cup human-rights plan at council public comment

Los Angeles City Council · April 15, 2026
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Summary

Student advocates, legal experts and anti-trafficking groups told the council public comment that the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment Commission has not publicly released a required human-rights plan for the 2026 World Cup and urged immediate transparency and resourcing for trafficking prevention and worker protections.

Several public commentators during the council’s public-comment period urged the mayor’s office and the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment Commission to publicly release a human-rights plan required under Los Angeles’ host-city obligations for the 2026 World Cup.

Viviana Fuentes (S40), a student advocate with the Sunita Jane Initiative at Loyola Law School, said the plan was due Dec. 31, 2025, and that the absence of a publicly available human-rights plan leaves the city…

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