United Nations Special Rapporteur on Racism, Tendayi Achiume, released a new report on the conditions of tens of thousands of workers in Qatar confirming the country’s reliance on a caste system in dealing with workers.
Workers originating from Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are treated worse and have less rights and wages from those coming from Arab countries, Europe, North America and Australia.
According to the report, about one million foreign workers work in Qatar, 18.500 of them work in World Cup stadium construction projects, while tens of thousands of others are working on projects related to the country’s hosting of the World Cup such as the construction, hospitality and security sectors.
The UN report emphasized that Qatar’s victory in hosting the World Cup in nearly 10 years did not push it to improve the rights of foreign workers, revealing that the list of violations they are subjected to include failure of wages payment, insecure working conditions, racial profiling by the police, and denial of access to some public places.
The same report also condemned the use of the term ‘flee’ in reference to workers who escape their abusive employers, which the Special Rapporteur considered to be evidence of the coercive working conditions which became the reality of many low-income workers in Qatar.
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