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From Edwin Rios in Mother Jones in an article called This Chart Shows the Staggering Human Cost of Staging a World Cup in Qatar. He says in part:
Allegations of bribery have long plagued FIFA, especially since its controversial decision to grant Qatar the 2022 World Cup. But much worse is the plight of South Asian migrant workers brought in to build the stadium infrastructure there: Since 2010, more than 1,200 migrant workers have died in Qatar under hazardous working conditions, and a 2013 Guardian investigation found that at least 4,000 total are projected to die before the 2022 World Cup even starts.
Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post put that toll in perspective in a striking infographic.
FIFA bribery? What about the 1200 dead migrant workers in Qatar so far?
- By John Richardson at 29 May 2015 - 7:07am
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When a law firm hired by Qatar, the site of the 2022 World Cup, issued a report last year urging reforms in the treatment of migrant construction workers there, human rights groups expected the tiny oil-rich Persian Gulf nation to respond quickly.
But more than 15 months later, critics say, many of the report’s major recommendations remain unaddressed, and thousands of foreign laborers continue to work in Qatar under conditions akin to indentured servitude. The report, by the law firm DLA Piper, called for, among other things, eliminating the collection of exorbitant fees paid by workers to secure jobs and rules preventing them from changing jobs or leaving the country.
A United States Senate subcommittee examined those issues on Wednesday as part of a hearing into the corruption scandal surrounding FIFA, soccer’s international governing body. The panel also heard testimony in a continuing debate over the causes of worker deaths in Qatar.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/business/international/senate-fifa-inquiry-to-include-plight-of-construction-workers-in-qatar.html