Qatar: "Despite promises" & spotlight of World Cup, not enough being done to improve workers' rights, finds report
摘要
日期: 2021年11月20日
地點: 卡塔爾
其他
Not Reported ( 運輸:綜合 ) - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 1
移民和移民工人: ( 1 - 孟加拉 , 運輸:綜合 , Gender not reported )議題
Failing to renew visas , Imprisonment回應
Response sought: 否
後續行動: The worker called his employer from detention but he did nothing.
資訊來源: News outlet
"Qatar World Cup 2022: Glittering World Cup stadiums 'cost workers their lives' as Qatar fails to protect them," 20 Nov 2021
Nadim Mollah was buying cigarettes when police picked him up. A Bangladeshi national, Mollah was a car washer for a limousine company in the Qatari capital, Doha, living above the garage with seven other workers. But the manager had allowed his residency permit to expire, leaving him undocumented...
Experiences like Mollah’s provide worrying evidence that, despite promises of change, not enough is being done to improve human rights in Qatar ahead of next year’s World Cup...
Critics of Qatar’s autocratic regime concede there have been some improvements in recent years. “We were already campaigning,” says Sharan Burrow, general secretary of the ITUC. “But the leverage of having the World Cup awarded was terrific to get the spotlight.”...
... NGOs are shifting focus to the hospitality sector, which is expanding to cater for an estimated 1.2 million visitors...
This too is rife with exploitative practices, according to research by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, which found migrant workers paying extortionate recruitment fees, being prevented from leaving jobs, passport confiscation and wage discrimination.
“Much of this points to conditions of forced labour,” the report concluded.