Human Rights Watch published a new report on the situation of workers in Qatar, in which it confirmed that Qatar’s efforts to protect workers' rights are slow and ineffective.
Under the title “How do we work without pay? Wage violations against migrant workers before the 2022 World Cup,” Human Rights Watch published a seventy-one-page report highlighting Qatari employers’ violation of workers’ rights and Qatar’s failure to abide by its commitment to the International Labor Organization (ILO) to abolish the sponsorship system and protect migrant workers’ wages.
Commenting on the report, Michael Page, deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa at Human Rights Watch, said that: “Ten years have passed since Qatar won the bid to host the FIFA World Cup 2022, and migrant workers continue to suffer from late payment, incomplete payment, or non-payment of wages. We heard about workers suffering from hunger due to late wages, workers burdened with debts toiling to get underpaid wages, and others stuck in poor working conditions for fear of retaliation.”
It is noteworthy that the number of the migrant workforce in Qatar amounts to 2 million workers, representing 95% of the workforce in the country.
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