The 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup will kill more Indians than the numbers of players it will host. This is what Sharan Burrow, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation said last year, when news of Qatari human rights violations made headlines. A thousand Indians had already died, and a year later, we’ve only rescued Indians from the Gulf country when bombs fell, but ignored the darker, hidden world of Indian migrants in these nations.
In 2013, a Doha hospital reported that over a 1,000 workers were admitted to the trauma unit because of falling from heights, and a “significant” number of them died. Working 12 hours a day in 50 degree heat, without enough water - that’ll knock anyone out.
But their ordeal had begun much before that – many reported having lower salaries (which were rarely, or never paid), having their passports taken away, and working seven days a week. And as the 2022 deadline for the World Cup approaches, it is getting worse.
Migrant workers live in overcrowded accommodation with no air conditioning (a necessity in the scorching heat of the Middle East), and are exposed to overflowing sewage and uncovered septic tanks. Many are dumped and forgotten in squalid accommodations by companies who promised them a better life. Full story...
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