{"id":224301,"date":"2022-11-28T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=224301"},"modified":"2022-11-23T05:45:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T05:45:38","slug":"world-cup-in-qatar-is-deadliest-major-sporting-event-in-history-built-on-a-decade-of-forced-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/11\/world-cup-in-qatar-is-deadliest-major-sporting-event-in-history-built-on-a-decade-of-forced-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup in Qatar Is \u201cDeadliest Major Sporting Event\u201d in History, Built on a Decade of Forced Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>21 Nov 2022 &#8211; <em>As the World Cup begins, we look at the host country of Qatar\u2019s labor and human rights record. \u201cThis is the deadliest major sporting event, possibly ever, in history,\u201d says Minky Worden of Human Rights Watch, who describes how millions of migrant workers from the world\u2019s poorest countries have faced deadly and forced labor conditions working on the $2 billion infrastructure. By one count, 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since 2010, when it was awarded the right to host the games. \u201cThese are unprecedented labor rights abuses,\u201d says Worden, who claims \u201cthere\u2019s no ability if you\u2019re a migrant worker in Qatar to strike for your basic human rights.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5hXtG2rhl84<br \/>\n<strong><em>Amy Goodman is the host of \u201c<\/em>Democracy Now<\/strong><em><strong>!\u201d a daily international TV\/radio news hour<\/strong> airing on more than 900 stations in North America. She is the author of <\/em>Breaking the Sound Barrier<em>, released in paperback and now a <\/em>New York Times<em> best-seller.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 Nov 2022 \u2013 A look into Qatar\u2019s labor and human rights record. Minky Worden, of Human Rights Watch, describes how millions of poor migrant workers have faced deadly, forced labor conditions on the $2 billion infrastructure. By one count, 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since 2010, when it was awarded the hosting of the games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[550,725,2745,610,2325,1801,949,1693,1146,99],"class_list":["post-224301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-corruption","tag-culture-of-violence","tag-fifa","tag-inequality","tag-migrant-workers","tag-qatar","tag-slave-labor","tag-soccer-world-cup","tag-sports","tag-structural-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}