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Nepali woman romance in arab
More than 400 Nepalese migrant
workers have died on Qatar’s building sites as the Gulf state prepares
to host the World Cup in 2022, a report will reveal this week.
The grim statistic comes from the Pravasi Nepali Co-ordination
Committee, a respected human rights organisation which compiles lists of
the dead using official sources in Doha. It will pile new pressure on
the Qatari authorities – and on football’s world governing body, Fifa –
to curb a mounting death toll that some are warning could hit 4,000 by
the time the 2022 finals take place.
It also raises the question of how many migrant workers in total have
died on construction sites since Qatar won the bid in 2010. Nepalese
workers comprise 20% of Qatar’s migrant workforce, and many others are
drafted in from countries such as India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri
Lanka.
A focus on the Nepalese deaths has seen Fifa and Qatar battling a PR
crisis that threatens to cast a long shadow over the event. Last week,
appearing before EU officials, Theo Zwanziger, a senior Fifa executive
who has publicly criticised the decision to award the tournament to
Qatar, pledged that his organisation would be carrying out “on-the-spot
visits” to ensure that workers’ rights were being respected.
But the promise is unlikely to reassure human rights organisations and
labour groups, which have raised repeated concerns about Qatar’s kafala
employment system, under which migrant workers are tied to their
“sponsor” employers.
Read more at http://www.nepalitimepass.com/2015/11/nepali-woman-romance-in-arab.html#ltlDrGfeCMEI5EV2.99
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