A blind eye ? New laws meant to protect us are being ignored, say workers
When Qatar won the bid to host the World Cup in 2010, the triumphant Gulf state began an ambitious building plan of state-of-the-art stadiums, luxury hotels and a sparkling new metro.
Yet over the next decade, the brutal conditions facing hundreds of thousands of migrant workers toiling in the searing heat to build Qatar’s World Cup vision has been exposed, with investigations into the forced labour, debt bondage and worker death toll causing international outrage.
