[Ryan57]

Dozens of Nepalese migrant labourers have died in Qatar in recent weeks and thousands more are enduring appalling labour abuses, a Guardian investigation has found, raising serious questions about Qatar's preparations to host the 2022 World Cup.

This summer, Nepalese workers died at a rate of almost one a day in Qatar, many of them young men who had sudden heart attacks. The investigation found evidence to suggest that thousands of Nepalese, who make up the single largest group of labourers in Qatar, face exploitation and abuses that amount to modern-day slavery, as defined by the International Labour Organisation, during a building binge paving the way for 2022.

According to documents obtained from the Nepalese embassy in Doha, at least 44 workers died between 4 June and 8 August. More than half died of heart attacks, heart failure or workplace accidents.

The investigation also reveals:

• Evidence of forced labour on a huge World Cup infrastructure project.

• Some Nepalese men have alleged that they have not been paid for months and have had their salaries retained to stop them running away.

• Some workers on other sites say employers routinely confiscate passports and refuse to issue ID cards, in effect reducing them to the status of illegal aliens.

• Some labourers say they have been denied access to free drinking water in the desert heat.

The allegations suggest a chain of exploitation leading from poor Nepalese villages to Qatari leaders. The overall picture is of one of the richest nations exploiting one of the poorest to get ready for the world's most popular sporting tournament.

More at the link: http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...rld-cup-slaves

[Tom4784]

Strip Qatar of the World Cup, people are dying every day just to make sure this tournament happens and Fifa shouldn't tolerate it. Nothing will happen though, this committee will just offer up a scapegoat and do it's best to keep it's abuses from the public view.

A message needs to be sent to Qatar that this is not okay.

[Brother Leon]

How they got the Competition astounds me and now that their whole "AC in Stadiums and on Pavements" claim has been proved to be bull then there is no reason they should still have it. That claim was the main reason they got it.


**** FIFA and **** a Winter World Cup too.

[Novo]

As Stannis once said " Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice "

[BBfanUSA]

and wasn't Qatar bribing FIFA reps to vote for them?

America should've been the choice, it's a growing market and all the stadiums will be used for things after the World Cup anyway.