The number of worker deaths from Qatar's giant World Cup campaign may never be known but the debate has already taken a toll on the Gulf state's name.
Tens of thousands of migrant workers helped build the World Cup stadiums in Qatar.PARIS -The number of worker deaths from Qatar's giant World Cup campaign may never be known but the debate has already taken a toll on the Gulf state's name, experts say.
Qatar, FIFA and the international unions who pressured the Gulf state say more focus should be put on the reforms it has pursued to improve safety, establish a minimum wage and give workers more rights to change jobs and even leave the country. The ILO, which has had an office in Doha since 2018, called the figures"misleading" and said they had been wrongly linked to World Cup sites without proper context.
"One can also question, given the publicity that it has received, whether it has not been an instrument of a foreign strategy of influence."According to Qatar, there were 37 deaths of foreign workers linked to World Cup sites and only three in"work-related accidents".An ILO report said there were 50 deaths and 500 serious injuries among foreign workers in 2020.
"It was not surprising to hear a reference to the 6,500 figure, it wasn’t surprising to hear an assumption that two million migrant workers in the country are victims of forced labour. And it wasn’t surprising to hear that everybody associated everything in Qatar to the World Cup. In that sense it has had a concrete impact on policymakers.”
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