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Dropping the Ball: Qatar Failing to Make Progress on Migrant Rights | Amnesty International USA

30.5.15

Dropping the Ball: Qatar Failing to Make Progress on Migrant Rights | Amnesty International USA:

The briefing, Promising Little, Delivering Less: Qatar and Migrant Labor Abuse Ahead of the 2022 Football World Cup, features a ‘scorecard’ that rates the authorities’ response to nine fundamental migrant labor rights issues identified by Amnesty International. A year later, only limited progress has been achieved on five of these issues, in four areas the authorities have failed to make any improvements. -- “Qatar is failing migrant workers. Last year the government made promises to improve migrant labor rights in Qatar, but in practice, there have been no significant advances in the protection of rights,” said Mustafa Qadri, Gulf migrant rights researcher at Amnesty International.

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