Qatar World Cup workers suffered ‘human rights abuses’, new Amnesty report finds
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The investigation showed a ‘pattern of abuses against migrant workers’ and accused FIFA of failing to investigate the issue, writes Miguel Delaney
Hundreds of security guards and marshals at the Qatar World Cup went unpaid for long working periods without days off, before being forced out of the country when the tournament ended, a new Amnesty International investigation has found. Some did not earn enough to pay off the loan required for recruitment costs.
The human rights body states that research into Teyseer Security Services ‘shows [a] pattern of abuses against migrant workers.’ Steve Cockburn, Amnesty’s Head of Economic and Social Justice, has meanwhile accused FIFA of failing ‘to effectively investigate the issue or offer remedies,’ demanding that the global governing body step in and ‘offer immediate and meaningful remediation for the human rights abuses suffered by workers’.
The group spoke to 22 men from Nepal, Kenya, and Ghana, who were among thousands of migrant workers ...
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