Canada’s Unions -Protecting labour rights and human rights ahead of FIFA 2026

October 2, 2025

12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. EDT

Zoom registration link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TKjjCOp4QQ-QZsNBZUdyiA#/

As you know, FIFA is coming to North America in 2026 with 13 games in Canada (Toronto and Vancouver) between June 11 and July 19. The CLC has been engaged in advocacy alongside both global and domestic partners to highlight the rights of workers and human rights more broadly during these games.

To this effect, we are hosting this webinar as an important opportunity for trade union and human rights activists to learn more about labour's advocacy work on this file, both domestic and international.

This webinar is also an important opportunity to showcase work from a domestic human rights organisation, the YWCA Canada, to demonstrate how labour and human rights advocates can collaborate across movements in the interests of defending workers' rights and human rights ahead of and during the 2026 FIFA World Men’s Games.

Our esteemed line up of panelists will include:

• Ambet E. Yuson General Secretary, Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI)
• Todd Brogan Director of Campaigns & Organising, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
• Aline Nizigama CEO, YWCA Canada
• Jennifer Li Director, Center for Community Health Innovation, Georgetown University, Dignity 2026
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Larry Rousseau, Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Labour Congress, will serve as moderator for this panel.

Panel Length: 90 minutes total