HRW slams Qatar for abuses of migrant workers
Despite Qatar's promises to improve migrant workers' conditions, Human Rights Watch stresses that such reforms have failed to materialize.
Aug 9, 2019
Despite Qatar's promises to improve migrant workers' conditions, Human Rights Watch stresses that such reforms have failed to materialize.
Qatar has a migrant labour force of over two million. As many as 30,000 migrant workers helping build the eight stadiums Qatar as well as other infrastructure needed for the tournament.
Qatar’s decision to arbitrarily strip families Al Ghufran clan of their citizenship has left some members still stateless 20 years later and deprived of key human rights.
What’s missing throughout the museum is any confrontation of the more painful side-effects of Qatar's rapid growth.
Qatar failed to deliver on several key promised reforms, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2019.
The law is inadequate and does not meet Qatar's commitments to the International Labor Organization last year.
The charity's press release about Qatar contained a significant factual error, and appeared to overlook the group's own research from the previous year into human rights concerns.
Graham Vance accused the authorities of trying to scapegoat him, so he is considering a civil lawsuit against Qatar.