The Swiss courts are starting to hold FIFA accountable for the millions of migrant workers brought into Qatar for the preparation of the 2022 World Cup.

On Monday the Guardian reported that FIFA, the world governing body of soccer, is started to be held accountable for the mistreatment of migrant workers helping Qatar prepare for their World Cup in 2022. About 1.7 million workers have come in for this huge construction project.

Brought forward by the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation, this is the first time that the Swiss courts have held world soccer’s governing body directly accountable for something. A letter from the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation has given FIFA 3 weeks to accept its involvement in the human rights violations and pay damages before going to court.

As of now, the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation is representing one migrant worker by the name of Nadim Sharaful Alam. Though the damages he is suing over are “relatively modest,” if the law suit is successful this would mean “…hundreds of thousands of migrant workers [could] make similar claims that could run into tens of millions of pounds.”

The letter sent to FIFA does not only talk about the human rights violations that have been happening in Qatar, but it also says that FIFA should have never given the World Cup to Qatar in the first place.

Fifa’s legal responsibility arose at two distinctive moments in time: (1) when it allowed Qatar to participate in the bidding contest for the World Cup 2022 and subsequently selected Qatar as host of the 2022 World Cup; and (2) when it failed and still is failing to take responsibility for the present fate of the migrant workers by not demanding Qatar to reform its labour system.

FIFA is very much well aware of the working conditions in Qatar and how terrible they are. Earlier this year, FIFA published a report from Professor John Ruggie, a human rights expert from Harvard University, and promised to carry out his recommendations. The entire time, though, FIFA has claimed that “…it can’t be held responsible for working conditions” of the host country.

It seems like finally people aren’t bowing down to FIFA anymore. After the string of arrests in 2015 and now the law suit brought forth by Netherlands Trade Union Confederation, hopefully people can bring a real change to the world governing body of soccer.