Amnesty International said that abuses of World Cup workers in Qatar is a “stain on the conscience of world football”.
“If the system in Qatar doesn’t change, then every man, woman and child who goes to the World Cup is likely to meet a migrant worker who is exploited,” said Audrey Gaughran, Amnesty’s director of global issues and research.
Amnesty’s 80-page report, titled “The ugly side of the beautiful game: Labor exploitation on a Qatar World Cup venue,” is based on interviews in the year to February 2016 with 234 male migrants working in construction at the Khalifa Stadium and other sites.
Amnesty said it has found evidence of “systematic abuses,” including forced labor of migrant workers at the Khalifa Stadium.
Some of these include the threat of penalties to exact work from some migrants such as withholding pay, handing workers over to the police or stopping them from leaving Qatar.
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