Good thing that article is from 2013

Nov 22, 2022
8:47:32am

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Migrant workers recount abuse while building stadiums for World Cup in Qatar

The World Cup starts Sunday in Qatar, but controversies have shadowed the event. To host, the nation went on a stadium-building spree, bringing in thousands upon thousands of migrant laborers. There are numerous stories about the workforce being mistreated and more than three dozen died on the job....

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/migrant-workers-recount-abuse-while-building-stadiums-for-world-cup-in-qatar

Yahoo

Quasi-slavery is building Qatar's 2022 World Cup stadiums, and FIFA is fine with it

A new Amnesty International report details how workers at one of Qatar's 2022 World Cup stadiums went months without pay.

https://sports.yahoo.com/qatar-world-cup-unpaid-workers-slavery-fifa-amnesty-international-193121993.html

HuffPost

Qatar World Cup's Labor Abuse Amounts To 'Modern Slavery,' New Report Says

“Fans need to know" of the forced labor, the lead researcher behind the study said.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/qatar-world-cup-labor-modern-slavery-new-report_n_636d2e72e4b03438614132ba/amp

Amnesty International

Qatar World Cup of Shame

Migrants building a stadium for the 2022 football World Cup in Qatar are abused and exploited.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/03/qatar-world-cup-of-shame/

Deadspin

This Slave-Built Qatari World Cup Stadium Sure Is Pretty!

Judging by the looks of the newly renovated Khalifa International Stadium—the first stadium construction project the nation has completed ahead of the 2022 World Cup it will host—Qatar’s massive population of migrant workers, who toil under life-threatening conditions in a working system often...

https://deadspin.com/this-slave-built-qatari-world-cup-stadium-sure-is-prett-1795349171/amp

Nbcnews

A year from Qatar World Cup, exploited migrant workers fight for change on human rights

In a year’s time, the heroes of the so-called beautiful game will head to the tiny Gulf kingdom of Qatar in the hope of being crowned champions at the World Cup

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna2889

SFGATE

The Qatar World Cup is a moral abomination

Qatar's human rights abuses are many, but its treatment of the migrant workers who build stadiums makes this World Cup a travesty, writes Alex Shultz.

https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/qatar-world-cup-slaves-disgrace-17593056.php

https://www.facebook.com/CBSMornings/

Rights group estimates "hundreds of workers have died to make" Qatar World Cup possible

Qatar is one of the world's wealthiest nations, but a migrant worker tells CBS News he had "no rights" when he went to work there. Others didn't even survive.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/2022-qatar-world-cup-migrant-labor-deaths-abuse/#app

BBC News

How does Qatar treat foreign workers? - BBC News

Qatar has been criticised for the treatment of foreign workers who built its World Cup facilities.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60867042.amp

The Daily Beast

World Cup Slaves: It Gets Worse

Nepalese migrant workers on Qatar’s 2022 World Cup stadiums were met with their worst indignity yet: they were disallowed from going home to the funerals of relatives who were killed in last month's earthquake.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/world-cup-slaves-it-gets-worse

https://amp.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article268562817.html

Council on Foreign Relations

What Is the Kafala System?

The kafala system regulates the lives of tens of millions of migrant laborers in the Middle East, but growing outrage over human rights abuses, racism, and gender discrimination has fueled calls for …

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-kafala-system

It's not hard to condemn this.