As I mentioned earlier, the ITUC is concerned that there is a lack of political leadership on this issue.
The Green Economy Coalition is already more than 20 organisations including UNEP, IUCN, WWF, IIED, IISD, ITUC and GRI.
Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, the director of advocacy at BIRD, said: "BIRD strongly backs and welcomes the action taken by ITUC.
More than 2,500 Indonesian maids a year have fled from abusive sponsors, according to the ITUC.
Jeffrey Vogt, the legal adviser for ITUC, stresses that just because workers aren't employed by the universities, it does not mean that they should relinquish responsibilities.
As Sharon Burrows, the head of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) puts it: "There are no decent jobs on a dead planet".
Amnesty and the ITUC are pushing for Qatar to end the kafala sponsorship system and give domestic workers legal protection for basic human rights.
Sharan Burrow, the general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), said: "We remind people constantly it's a police state.
"What it says is that their moral code is lacking any kind of compass we can endorse," said Sharan Burrow, the Ituc general secretary.
The ITUC predicted as many as 4,000 migrant workers could die in Qatar during that period unless conditions are improved.
In 2011, Fifa promised co-operation with the ITUC, accepting it bore a "responsibility that goes beyond the development of football".
