Amnesty International accuses the football world governing body Fifa, to fail to prevent human rights violations in connection with the World Cup in Qatar 2022nd In a report writes the human rights organization, build the infrastructure for the World Cup thousands of migrant workers were exploited in the Gulf state. In some cases, leave to speak of forced labor.
“My life here is like a prison,” said a construction worker to Amnesty staff. He spent hours working in the hot sun and when he complained the first time, the manager said to him: “. If you want to stay in Qatar, be quiet and keep working” 234 construction workers and gardeners at Khalifa Stadium and the sports and training center were interviewed for the report – none of the respondents was, according to Amnesty in possession of his passport. Employers wanted to prevent so that migrants Qatar could leave before the end of the employment contract.
Amnesty urges Fifa to immediately anything against the exploitation of migrant workers to do. Regina Spöttl, Qatari expert at Amnesty International in Germany, stated that since the awarding of the World Cup to the Gulf monarchy in 2010 the Fifa had “not done enough against the inhumane conditions at the world construction sites”. If the Fifa NOT TRADE immediately that she was partly responsible for the World Cup 2022 “held on the backs of tens of thousands of exploited migrant workers” will.
Amnesty estimates that the number of migrant workers will increase tenfold in the World Cup construction sites in Qatar in the next two years to about 36,000. 90 percent of current migrants in Qatar come therefore from South Asian countries such as Bangladesh, India and Nepal. “Shady recruitment agency” lured the men in their home countries with false promises wage and demanded high fees 500-4300 dollars.
Spöttl sees it as a “breach katarisches right after the revision of the employer to bear such costs.” Many migrant workers into debt to pay the agency fee can. In Qatar they got then “significantly less than promised wages, in some cases just half”.
construction workers wages would be paid for up to seven months late, according to the report. Amnesty had the working conditions at the world construction sites in Qatar already in 2015 sharply criticized. Since then, the Qatari government had done little to improve the situation. Amnesty confronted the Qatari government, Fifa and the companies involved with the allegations. All parties pledged to take the comment seriously.
The government in Doha had in 2015 indignantly responded to the Amnesty report and stated that significant reforms were introduced and more would follow. So there are proposals to abolish the controversial kafala system. Under this system, a company can prohibit employees, among other things, to change employers or leave the country. Critics consider the system as a form of modern slavery.
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