Slave Workers Dying in Shocking Numbers in Qatar
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS, 4 Aug 2014
Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks – TRANSCEND Media Service
After visiting labor camps near the Qatari capital of Doha, an international federation of trade unions has issued a blistering report chronicling the labor and human rights abuses unfolding in the host country of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
The group calls Qatar a country with only “a facade of government,” and says that impoverished migrant workers from abroad are living in squalid conditions while beholden to employers who control their identification cards and exit visas. Working in “unbelievable heat” six days a week, such migrants are now dying in “unprecedented numbers,” according to the report’s authors.”
Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, discusses this disgusting story.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YS6tTjd5k4#t=12
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