Qatar's World Cup 2022 workers: 'We may as well just die here' | Guardian Investigations

the winner to organize the 222 FIFA World Cup is well September the Guardian exposed serious labor rights abuses here in Qatar including the deaths of hundreds of migrant workers the government have said they're going to do something about it so now with the stadium for the 2022 World Cup starting to rise out of the ground we've returned to Doha to find out if anything has changed the place to start is with the World Cup preparations here at the aspire Academy a state-of-the-art Sports Centre cutters young football styles are being coached to compete against the world's best in 2022 on a full-sized air-conditioned pitch one of leather should cut that name everyone is only wanted celebrate because I won bu everything I do I eat I sleep everything is for football because it's like my life the other controversy that has been has been about the building of the World Cup and the use of migrant labour did you have any thoughts on that or you don't want to talk about he might want to look in about decade okay okay they are right to be sensitive this is the Alberta tower the HQ of catters football authorities on the 38th and 39th floors are officers occupied by the 2022 World Cup organising committee but some of the men who built these offices have become victims of serious labor exploitation they went unpaid for over a year they were abandoned by their employer and left to live in squalor katas labor system stopped them quitting their jobs or leaving the country without their employers permission the Qatari authorities were told about their plight months ago but we tracked some of them down who are still trapped in Doha while the World Cup organising committee enjoys the lavish officers they built these workers are still waiting to be paid combined you ever do a bazooka line guru and I will go to covert operation upon the hideous alien upon a career at the Apple II GU recuperation rely on the door the one overlay projects paperwork shows the officers were commissioned by a quatre government organization under the auspices of the current Emir he is also the president of the World Cup organising committee the budget was 2.5 million pounds but the contractor Lea trading and contracting stopped paying wages in 2012 rather than that were boys at China just kind of Noah when we said whether who watched you again are you geeks Alba celery milligauss ina positive Arjun Antigua Carney boy 17 about tea godmother layers and when I reached a salvage job or whatever you got mad earlier then there's a huge contrast between that place nail-bitter tower where the problems began for those men huge luxury the our bitter tower and real difficulty where they're living now and they just don't understand why the Qatari government can't help them get out of that situation and the Qatari courts can't either and it's a good question because I can't quite understand either you the World Cup tower workers are not an isolated case low pay and even no pay is commonplace in katas construction industry just a few miles from Doha's luxury hotels we found over 60 workers employed by ibex technical trading and contracting marooned in a desert camp some of them said they have not been paid for five months a problem tienda de Chasseur a I was talking to panic every same arrow Avalonia doubt they use granny panty never known you look for a non-work a panda toy handyman is an irritated I'm defending three tactical Hina I look at the businessman noggin in town way Sega Saturn made a pencil to injure someone to sell area of the question Adela pani near Bhavani a dragon's lair but sala de Vaca regalia una de Tejada given more than today the guys here there's 65 of them from India Sri Lanka Nepal they're getting into big debt and they're living in really really appalling conditions no showers salty water and it's making him sick and it's really shocking to see it really is on a veneer silicon veneer sellers do get a so about they said time data as a time delay today Tiesto company bikini Rado chicken coast ohtori Galletti o qanv animo go go e di tenda assam Ocampo no de salón odin campaña coast orzo am iam wear a venom where Mario unis toe Porco's Koenig ago any case in GoPro Tiki Ria's oh well Vishwakarma x' wife Kamla and their son ashish live in a rented room on the outskirts of Nepal's capital Katmandu varam fine Garda Harry meep we support a sinus orale a veteran Trojan girl oh my poor jaco exposure Gaara poor ha China Bona Dea or organ t7 Osos repent a circle Mensa on porous Haseena poor Jagadamba doko Anza sons o Parsippany no con miedo Horrell Accra Ghana Manero Barbara quorum in Somalia Moana so meteora muy esto be a Lambo Shiraz ooh many of the migrant workers problems begin in their own countries with recruitment agents who charge huge fees in exchange for false promises about jobs and salaries in Qatar the recruitment agents which sent many of the men to ibex trading is capital international manpower we sent two men to visit the agency with a hidden camera posing as prospective migrants although the IBEX workers had not been paid for months staff assured them that they would face no problems with their salaries in Qatar anybody who came listen any forms are going to be drinking milk and money but five partners outside yes right now like a shadow who put the cameras at me when we can going to come on it's probably bad decision so many migrants fall victim to the so called double contract this happened to Shambhu Shrestha another ibex employee center cutter by capital international manpower compared Obama over the position 2500 run her husband out of 900 B is about a foreman on air but having a lever McConville a crazy what you thought the boy died he was a Yeti coma in a parma Pomona second oh yeah okay are you particle oh nice ugly either pero le someone say le paya hey no cojones of heaven above you this now others suffer a far worse fate according to katas own figures 882 migrants from India and Nepal died in 2012 and 2013 but most of these deaths were classified as sudden death cause unknown sometimes known as sudden death syndrome one recent victim was Rishi Kandel who died in May 2014 a duty or on oovoo duty or a posse Caracara Tsutomu suti party Diana am Rohtang moonship own apartment you too Johnny Tavella Bromley Reseda alibis I like that dude is a novella Boyle third abuser thus I never drive co sorry we're sorry the room where candle used to sleep is now used as a store no one dares sleep there anymore mansion where party durante la Periyar Kumar sir given era LaRocco monkey manwich isso possible nineteen days after Rishi kandel died in Qatar his body was flown home to Katmandu where it was received by his wife Saraswathi another key no no no we were like a Gore I'm 11 I'd understood if you saw when I booked it ago from 98 a dirty fist of oil and it was in the habit of slaving in winter this although on his sword at the port had with a casa living all day whenever it moves with a thought I'd what about to me anybody they still they have for the headrest remember that Juna permittivity too many cinema tonight Ottawa pontypandy Delaney and Latino because they won exactly mama train award will focus on this time so we're gonna go to Bordeaux Savannah let's see people from the poorest countries in the world are still being literally exploited here guitars building boom but now is the construction of the stadium start for the 2022 World Cup the question is whether the people's game football that so many people love can make a difference here at the al Wacha stadium katas first World Cup venue construction is underway the World Cup offers Qatar a unique opportunity to reform its labor system there are signs the authorities are starting to recognize the scale of the problems their workers face but will they grasp this chance will they turn words into action or will Qatar continue to allow its migrant workers to be treated as just another disposable commodity but well arguments rage over the risks footballers will face plane and cutters extreme heat migrant workers from Nepal are dying on the job in record numbers

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Length: 14min 23sec (863 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 28 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/AlGamaty]

I'll take anything on Qatar from The Guardian with a huge pinch of salt. They have a history of misconstruing the facts when it comes to this topic. /r/soccer blindly laps it up though because it fits their narrative.

[u/[deleted]]

Again with the "people are dying" crap, The Guardian lost their credibility when they decided to continue spouting that bullshit.