INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Qatar is facing renewed calls from migrant workers, their families, and rights groups to compensate for human rights abuses including wage
theft, injuries and uninvestigated deaths, days before the World Cup kicks off.As fans and footballers descend on the Persian Gulf country
for the month-long tournament, workers and their families, who have spent 12 years sounding the alarm on exploitative conditions endured
workers from Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and elsewhere have died in the host country since the World Cup was awarded 10 years
ago.While the official number of work-related deaths during preparations for the $220bn project is three, according to the Qataris and
migrant workers, their families and communities are not able to fully celebrate what they have built, and are calling on Fifa and Qatar to
who left Nepal for Qatar with his father, Ganga Sahani, in 2017, to earn money to repay family debts.In May Ram, who had returned home to
get married, received a call from Qatar saying that his father, believed to have been healthy, had died while working.Ram recalled
further action or compensation came from the company
migrant workers in the past decade that Qatar has failed to investigate, according to an Amnesty International 2021 report that says most
past labour abuses and to compensate workers and their families.Earlier this month, 10 European footballing nations demanded that Fifa
lives.To quell mounting criticism, sweeping labour reforms were introduced in 2019, which included ending kafala, the system that made it
Other reforms included the first minimum wage for migrant workers in the region and harsher penalties for companies that did not comply with
This article first appeared/also appeared in theguardian.com
