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Article

31 May 2015

Author:
Christian Red, Daily News

New documentary exposes 'dreadful' conditions of Qatar labour force

"WATCH: Documentary exposes 'dreadful' conditions of Qatar labor force, calls out World Cup sponsors", 30 May 2015

The camera’s lens sweeps down a flight of stairs in the four-story building near Doha, Qatar’s capital, before panning in on dank sleeping quarters, where four bunk beds are squeezed into a dimly-lit space. A shirtless man wears nothing but yellow and green Bermuda shorts, his face blurred to protect his identity. Moments later, the viewer is led into filthy kitchen and bathroom areas, where feces and excrement are overflowing from a hole in the floor that serves as a toilet. Meat cooks in a frying pan on a decrepit stove, the walls around it rank with filth...Welcome to the working conditions that many of the migrant workers living in Qatar are forced to endure as they help the Arab nation build its infrastructure to prepare for the 2022 World Cup. Fuller, the chairman of Skins, a global compression wear company, was able to view the grim work sites first-hand in March, after he says a “fixer” helped smuggle him into several camps in and around Doha. Fuller, who is Australian, has partnered with several other influential individuals, including British Parliament member Damian Collins and Australian Bonita Mersiades, a communications consultant and soccer reform activist, to start a movement called “New FIFA Now,” which is advocating reform and change throughout soccer’s world governing body. In an interview with the Daily News, Fuller said he hopes his trip to Qatar and the documentary short he produced there will draw the attention of FIFA sponsors...