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31 May 2016

Author:
Gulf Business

Qatar ranks 5th globally for modern day slavery

Qatar has ranked in the top five countries in the world for prevalence of modern day slavery...with a slavery prevalence rate of 1.36 per cent...in the Global Slavery Index 2016 by the Walk Free Foundation...[According to the report], Qatar has an estimated 30,300 people living in conditions of modern day slavery.

[T]he construction sector was found to be one of the most dominant forms of slavery, reflecting the demand of cheap labour to build infrastructure related to the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the country’s National Vision 2030.

Further down the list, Gulf countries Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia ranked from six to nine, with prevalence rates of 0.46 per cent and lower.