Qatar steps up violations against foreign workers
Qatar is stepping up its violations against foreign nationals working in it, which at the end causes suffering to hundreds of thousands of people.
Among those suffering because
of the Qatari practices are the workers constructing the tiny Gulf state's 2022
World Cup facilities.
The Covid-19 outbreak has
only come to compound the problems faced by the foreign workers in Qatar.
Report
The number of foreign workers
dying from the coronavirus is on the rise, according to a report by Maat
Foundation for Peace on December 6.
The report, which refers to
internal memos at Qatari companies hiring foreign workers, adds that the Qatari
government works hard to hide the number of workers dying from the disease for
fear of a FIFA decision to withdraw the World Cup organization from Qatar.
Qatar only sends the remains
of the dead workers back to their countries, the report says.
According to the report,
foreigners make up 95% of labor in Doha.
Human rights groups say,
meanwhile, that coronavirus infections are rife among the foreign workers in
the absence of healthcare to them.
The workers are forced to
stay in places that look like prison cells, the rights groups say.
They add that the Qatari
government had deported a large number of workers in the past period, even
without giving them their financial dues.
Testimonies
The report quotes the
families of some of the workers who say their relatives in Qatar were the
targets of repeated violations.
Some of the families said
their relatives were deprived of healthcare and forced to live in places that
do not have the minimum requirement for a healthy human life.
