Post by robeiae on Feb 23, 2021 17:40:59 GMT -5
I'm not sure what to do with this: www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/sports/6500-migrant-workers-died-qatars-2022-world-cup
I think that's overstating things, but maybe it's not. Here's the piece at The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-worker-deaths-qatar-fifa-world-cup-2022
The Guardian piece digs deeper and it's impossible not to link some of these deaths with World Cup projects.
I can tell you that I have never understood why the World Cup is being played in a country as small as Qatar. It's fucking stupid. And the powers-that-be at FIFA have blood on their hands, imo.
According to an analysis carried out by The Guardian, at least 6,500 migrant workers who were brought in from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka over the last 10 years to build Qatar’s 2022 World Cup facilities have died.
I think that's overstating things, but maybe it's not. Here's the piece at The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-worker-deaths-qatar-fifa-world-cup-2022
Data from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka revealed there were 5,927 deaths of migrant workers in the period 2011–2020. Separately, data from Pakistan’s embassy in Qatar reported a further 824 deaths of Pakistani workers, between 2010 and 2020.
The total death toll is significantly higher, as these figures do not include deaths from a number of countries which send large numbers of workers to Qatar, including the Philippines and Kenya. Deaths that occurred in the final months of 2020 are also not included.
In the past 10 years, Qatar has embarked on an unprecedented building programme, largely in preparation for the football tournament in 2022. In addition to seven new stadiums, dozens of major projects have been completed or are under way, including a new airport, roads, public transport systems, hotels and a new city, which will host the World Cup final.
While death records are not categorised by occupation or place of work, it is likely many workers who have died were employed on these World Cup infrastructure projects, says Nick McGeehan, a director at FairSquare Projects, an advocacy group specialising in labour rights in the Gulf. “A very significant proportion of the migrant workers who have died since 2011 were only in the country because Qatar won the right to host the World Cup,” he said.
The total death toll is significantly higher, as these figures do not include deaths from a number of countries which send large numbers of workers to Qatar, including the Philippines and Kenya. Deaths that occurred in the final months of 2020 are also not included.
In the past 10 years, Qatar has embarked on an unprecedented building programme, largely in preparation for the football tournament in 2022. In addition to seven new stadiums, dozens of major projects have been completed or are under way, including a new airport, roads, public transport systems, hotels and a new city, which will host the World Cup final.
While death records are not categorised by occupation or place of work, it is likely many workers who have died were employed on these World Cup infrastructure projects, says Nick McGeehan, a director at FairSquare Projects, an advocacy group specialising in labour rights in the Gulf. “A very significant proportion of the migrant workers who have died since 2011 were only in the country because Qatar won the right to host the World Cup,” he said.
I can tell you that I have never understood why the World Cup is being played in a country as small as Qatar. It's fucking stupid. And the powers-that-be at FIFA have blood on their hands, imo.