27/08/2020
Migrant workers starve as defiant Qatar continues exploitation: HRW - Saudi Gazette
Saudi Gazette report
BEIRUT — De ant Qatar continues to exploit its migrant workers despite a series of recent
revelations made by a number of global human rights organizations.
In a damning report released on Monday, the Human Rights Watch accused Qatari
authorities of turning a blind eye to a number of cases in which Qatari employers withheld
wages of poor workers, leaving them to starve.
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“Ten years since Qatar won the right to host the Fédération Internationale de Football
Association (FIFA) World Cup 2022, migrant workers are still facing delayed, unpaid, and
deducted wages,” said Michael Page, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at
Human Rights Watch.
“We have heard of workers starving due to delayed wages, indebted workers toiling in
Qatar only to get underpaid wages, and workers trapped in abusive working conditions
due to fear of retaliation.”
HRW also released a video along with the report containing interviews of more than 93
migrant workers working for more than 60 companies or employers.
Qatar has been dependent on 2 million migrant workers, making up about 95 percent of
its total labor force. Many are building or servicing the stadiums, transportation, hotels,
and infrastructure for the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2022. While they come to Qatar in
hope of stable jobs and incomes, many are instead met with wage abuses that drive them
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