FIFA World Cup worker deaths: Is Qatar making good on its promise to change? | Business Beyond
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- An army of migrant workers has been helping Qatar to prepare to host the 2022 World Cup. However, headlines about excessive deaths, unsanitary living conditions and unpaid wages have led to criticism of their treatment. In this Business Beyond we look at how the Arab state used to recruit its labourers - the kafala system, what life is like for them, and what's being done to improve that.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:20 - World Cup Preperation
02:30 - Qatar & Migrants
04:45 - The Kafala System
05:48 - Reforms
09:55 - Migrant worker deaths
12:25 - Boycott
14:30 - Outlook
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Update: The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy disputes the number of suicides referred to by Peter Millward quoting The Guardian (www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-worker-deaths-qatar-fifa-world-cup-2022). The Committee says there has been one suicide on its World Cup program and points to its annual reports: www.qatar2022.qa/sites/default/files/Workers-Welfare-Progress-Report-Dec-2019-EN.pdf.
The repeated publication talking about the deaths of thousan even seven years before the construction of the first stadium, only expresses the amount of hatred and envy, nothing more.
Thank you. Long lives
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Make a documentary on Israeli Mossad and their agenda
Show proper map of India. Dont be biased.
You know it's serious when Al Jazeera is silent.
They are too busy covering Hamas
They did make a news report about it before
@raj so what if they cover about other countries??
I was going to comment this, then i saw this
AL JAZEERA IS THE MOUTH OF WAHHABIST
Don't see al Jazeera here ,they like to pin point faults within other countries
Indeed
Simply Al Jazeera does not comment on false or questionable news, but rather exposes these practices
How does brainwashing feel buddy?
Aha is that’s what you had right now
Actually they did many times
18 Bangladeshi died recently.
They sold all their land to go there and now their family do not have land to cultivate.
So sad
You just have to tell me such a sad story to increase my existential dread
One tangible and concrete measure would be to lobby for life Insurance of workers before they travel for work. Sad DW didn't even think of that... Again lazy Journalism!!
Why are so many people dying?
@@verybigowl so many reasons
I worked in Qatar in 2018. There's a company called Green Eagle who employs 300 Ethiopians who worked on the highway construction. They were given a salary QAR 350 per month, but only given for the first two months, after that they don't get salary for the next 3 months. The Ethiopians strike and got one month salary and went back to their country. One month later, 300 Ethiopians more are employed with the same salary and two months of salary and 3 months of no salary happens again. For us working in Camp management felt sorry and got used to it happening like a sequence.
So, they keep coming?
same with chinese companies
Omg! If my math is right, that was less than 3,000 Ethiopian birr back in 2018 .Why did they even go out of the country for that amount ?? I am so confused….they could’ve made that in Ethiopia
Qatar actually has very little oil. They have vast reserves of natural gas.
@Airbus A350 per person bc they don’t have that many citizens. Not in total money
@Airbus A350 Russia has the world's largest gas reserves.
The world should be sanctioning Qatari gas instead.
@Airbus A350 Exactly, it’s geopolitical that some countries got sanctioned and others don’t, no matter how immoral they are.
@Airbus A350 Qatar should be sanctioned for supporting Hamas & for promoting †3rrorism ...
Qatar : Here's the Money
Fifa : It's progressive ...everything is safe in Qatar.
Money is manipulative
u are the last to talk emartie,, all arabs love QQatar unlike u emartie ,, u are the enemy of islam .. ur government .
@leo messi thier are mistakes agree .. bt Qatar are not uncaring as you think ...
Qatar give to many without expecting something back ... UAE just destroys every arab country and it has evil plans that kille d many innocent ,,,
it apppears as a modern , but its evil (UAE)
Facebook in india : here's the money
Twitter shutdown months lalter
@leo messi To be fair, the UAE is no better, since they used the exact same recruitment practices for building the Burj Khalifa. I think both countries have done a wrong.
Al Jazeera :🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐
They are busy hyping terrorists Hamas
Guess why Israel bomb their building in Gaza
AJ is sponsored by the super rich monarchs like RT and ITV. They don't dare to go against the grain.
Hahah don't worry @MehendiHasan will make a story defending Qatar and it's ruler
Right lol.
Rich people will never understand the pain of poor one.
Capitalism at it finest
bitter truth😥
@Kingshuk Monsur Soviet Russia had much better quality of life for everyone than capitalist Russia or feudal Russia.
I worked for a Qatari construction company, when my contract was about to expire I decided looking for a better-paying company there. I got one company who is willing to employ me with a better pay however my existing company won't release me. That is how KAFALA system exploits workers.
Qatar is a classic case of preaching high moral standards to the world, whilst simultaneously maintaining a regressive tribal autocracy at home 🤣👌
Oh ya? But Qatar is better than india still
@@milaari3079 suit yourself if you're happy living in an autocracy. We are happy with India's democracy 👍
@@milaari3079 lol qatar is nothing infront of india, 1 missle and qatar is done
@@kaceobrwa7039 bahahahaha in your dream.. there is US army base in qatar. If China droned India, India will KO immediately 😂. Small country doesn’t meant no military technology ckkckck
@@milaari3079 😂😂 dumb guy
6:21 Qatar is the top 10 richest country, but has one of the lowest minimum wages. Makes sense
not for everyone though
very bad condition
For their citizens they are ultra super rich. For the immigrant workers they dont get much.
Aljazerra forgot to cover their own country.
I don't see any such story in Al Jazeera?!?! 🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐
I wonder why 😅
Agn: Simply Al Jazeera does not comment on false or questionable news, but rather exposes these practices 😈
@@hassanbuali9923 this is not false nor questionable.
@@msgpatient7850 RIP your maind if you cant give us more 5 names and how they die bro
@@hassanbuali9923 are you Qatari agent because I see you in every comments reply
Without these immigrant workers The middle east is just like a desert
middle east is not just like a desert it’s also really beautiful
And without foreign engineers and architects, Qataris still be living in tents. They are brainless but only blessed by nature (oil).
You mean the Arab peninsula, the middle-east is actually a green countries with snows winters but most of the media likes to picture us all together.
Also the middle-east isn't arabs, but been Arabized by the arab invasions..
Only Iraq and parts of Syria is a desert in the ME.
justice for Nepali🇳🇵people 💕
Nepali worker force is the second largest in Qatar but DW Documentary is biasing and not representing Nepals issue.
❤️🇮🇳🇳🇵🇱🇰🇧🇩🇵🇭🇵🇰❤️
Yes DW is biased in this case they should have included Nepal
@@rsf356 ❤💙💚
Al jaazera left channel
Simply Al Jazeera does not comment on false or questionable news, but rather exposes these practices
@@hassanbuali9923 oh really???? 🤣🤣
@@scube2250 aha they still Ignore it 🤪
Thanks from Bangladesh. The govt. & fifa should take the responsibility
Fifa is as corrupt as they come.
FIFA and UEFA are cancer they would take your money if you have some to make a big fuss about this.
@Monarch
Bangladesh is starting to do well, it still has a long way but its doing pretty well right now.
@Monarch It's 50/50 fault from Bangladesh and Qatar, you can't blame one and just say to 'fix the country'
@Monarch Racist bedouin
Al Jazeera will not see any of this.
Simply Al Jazeera does not comment on false or questionable news, but rather exposes these practices
@@hassanbuali9923 there is nothing false or questionable there. It's just another baised media outlet who should not be taken seriously
@@rahulpatti1288 RIP your maind if you cant give us more 5 names and how they die .
@@hassanbuali9923 rip logic 😂 you just an interview on the video you are commenting. Al Jazeera can't report even they want to as they are run by a autocratic government.
@@rahulpatti1288 ouch 🤕 sorry you can’t even answer this simple question and blame Al Jazeera instead Wow that's weird and funny 😁
Al Jazeera; nah I don’t see nothing wrong with this 🙂
Al Jazeera, 🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐😱😱😱
You mean Al Jazeera ignore this news???
@@jjwoo317 yup
And there is Sizable number of hard working and honest people from NEPAL 🇳🇵 in Qatar 🇶🇦 as well ..... please mention them also 🙏🏻✌️
Nepalis are the second largest work force in Qatat but this paid documentary channel will not potray that.
Yes they should be mentioned too
The situations are different from company to company and it depends on the field where people work. I guess the situations mentioned in this video happens quite often in construction field.
Can the Nepali government do anything to help its citizens?
DW doing Al Jazeeras job for them 👏👏
I'm not a fan at all of any of the gulf oil countries .
Same here
Me too
Me three
Without oil they are nothing .
@@santhoshanvelmurugan3324 That is true
That is Modern day slavery.
Bro Neither Sharia, nor law, nor morals, what you say is acceptable in Qatar, and you must hold accountable those who lie to you about it
@@julianalaveraz Learn to differentiate between lies and facts and then come to me bro
@@hassanbuali9923 sharia accepte Slavery
@@jefflarin3774 if it’s only The one in your mind
@@hassanbuali9923 oh now there is types of slavery
Learn history
It was like every other slavery
Cruel and inhumane
I'm felt so pity about our fellow countrymen in domestic violence in others nation. 😢💔🙏🇵🇭
Bringing back.
Hello Anita
How are you doing and how is the weather condition over there?
you should be asking the question, why are your countrymen desperate to work overseas in terrible conditions.. must be something very wrong with your country, but you would not want to talk about that ?
@@milesinnz It's obviously due to low salaries and lack of job opportunities. So yes, there's a problem in the Philippines or other countries in Asia. And if you're not aware, it's not like an issue that can be solved overnight. Until then, some of us has to find jobs overseas.
But it doesn't excuse any other countries to treat foreign laborer like slaves. We are not talking about 5-star luxury resort treatment, but a fair and humane one for blue collar workers.
they are introducing these laws when almost over 80 percent of the construction for World Cup is over. well if they really want to do any good, these laws should be implemented retrospectively as well
Sharing, Justice and Peace for All.
Good joke
Lmfao
ALJAZEERA= DOES WHAT THEY ARE TOLD BY THE TOP MILK SHEIKH.
And where are ya from?
I've worked and lived in Jeddah, Abu Dhabi and Doha. I lived in Doha from 2011 to around 2015. Qatar has somewhat "racialised" people coming into the country, according to one's citizenship and/or skin colour. I still visit the region to meet clients or conferences. But for leisure or holidays, I avoid the region like the plague.
Well said
Entire UAE is dirt
Yes that’s interesting but, those workers that don’t go to conferences and staff, they do the hardest labour and come from the poorest areas of Asia. With all the due respect Not sure you can empathise.
I agree with 🇳🇴 Norway's team.
Many people were killed out of racism in Norway
Al Jazeera left the chat
I have lived in Qatar for almost 10 years. The citizens and the system have a racially discriminating attitude based upon skin colour and identity.
In my experience, the EU is not so different. In Poland or Spain (where I have lived), it's nearly impossible to change employers without the Permanent Resident Card (5 years on average) in hand. The conditions are better in general (not always, I know some specific cases of low-skilled workers) but the changing jobs situation is pretty much alike.
In Poland, the few employers who hire non-EU/EEA/Swiss citizens know very well that is nearly impossible for the employee to move to another company (they don't need to hold your passport to "encourage" you to stay in the same company). Plus, if you stay in the same company for at least three years, you must wait after your resignation three months to change to your new employer (this is Polish law). In some companies, it might be around four because the first day starts the first day of the next month, not the day your resignation was approved. So, think for a brief moment, you need a work permit, and your new employer needs to wait at least three months?
Three months might be fine if you're applying to a relatively high leadership role but for low-skilled or not crucial roles you can be sure, they will search for a new one. Additionally, the employee might need to pay around 1000 euros (4000+ zł) to a lawyer to do a lot of paperwork to change companies. There are some exceptions as always but it's not the common case.
Next in Spain is similar if you're a Highly Skilled Worker who for whatever reason needs/wants to change companies (not my case). You might face several troubles trying to do it. The regular workers (from my understanding) can move to another company after six months but the Highly Skilled ones cannot until they have the PR (the immigration police words not mine).
These two examples exclude a trickier topic, what if you want/need to move to another EU/EEA country? It's nearly impossible without the citizenship, the Blue Card (2+ years working in the same company that doesn't work in Ireland and Denmark), or in some rare cases the PR that is exchangeable with the local one.
Furthermore, the same situation happens in the US if you don't have the PR. That's why everyone is chasing the Green Card.
Changing jobs from my knowledge/experience is never easy in several countries if you don't have the PR.
I would recommend you to do the same research in a couple of EU/EEA countries (including Eastern Europe) and publish the results because it's not so different.
Don't misunderstand my post. I don't say what is happening in Qatar is correct or I believe what they are suffering shouldn't be fixed but funny enough if now they can change employers, this would be easier there than in several European countries.
Not a bad share. Thanks for the information.
More than 7K+ workers have died from South Asia.
The official data is much more than that.
mostly indian ?
@@zobaerhossainrobin46 humans
The repeated publication talking about the deaths of thousan even seven years before the construction of the first stadium, only expresses the amount of hatred and envy, nothing more.
@@dhananjaypingale6495 . Did you have your common Sense?
@@zobaerhossainrobin46 Bangladeshi bro
Any reason to for excluding Nepal from the report 🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵
It's not in top 5
@@user-mp1uf6lf5p Nepalese have higher death rates in Qatar
Bro your population is less work hard 😅
@@waqqasElahismch my borther at least google the subject before commenting.
@@knch bro I was kidding
As FIFA president was saying " ...a lot of progress ..." I bet he never has been to those labor camps , or have talked with any labors neither his team
Something that Al Jazeera will never report 😅
Does DW have the guts to show TIBET as a disputed region as it has shown J&K in it’s thumbnail.
Because it's not disputed.
Try harder
@@god-bv5wo oh is it. Then you should revisit and recall your Asian history lessons.
No one has power against mighty Chinese.... Not OIC can stand against china on uygar issue and Not western countries and UN on South China Sea..... Rules are just for poor countries jile UN can santion Myanmar now and will claim to be promotors of democracy 😖
@@AmitGupta-pm8iw Lmfao Amit whole Tibet is with China, While India has like 55% of Kashmir so theres no point in showing that as yours
@@pajeetshekelberg1147 Many flaws are there in your argument. To teach you on this, China illegally controls 20% of J&K too and that part is completely shown part of China not as disputed. So your argument fails here. Think harder brother and come with better argument next time.
Thanks for covering this.
“Sponsors”, you mean plantation owners. Call it what it is.
Yep
what plantation? lol
Nah, the being in Qatar is optional, being in plantations was not.
For being such temporary and well compensated workers, there are a lot of deaths occurring due to labor codes that aren't being bothered to be retrofitted for standard because they simple don't care about those workers. They care about the bottom line and getting those games going to boost Qatar's image on the international scene.
Getting killed at work because you're making something that's damn near useless is absolutely horrible for everyone. My dad saw a guy get killed building a concrete sports stadium in Seattle that was only around for about 10 years.
So China occupied Aksai chin is not shaded? Why? Why only Azad Kashmir and J&K is shaded why not Aksai Chin? Afraid of China ?
Now i can be determined, DW is funded by China because Aksai Chin is disputed too between india and China but It didn't show as diputed! Well done Autocratic's Tame who criticises Democracy and favours Autocracy,
Truth
lol
All Jazeera : 🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐
Poor innocent people died for this world cup 😢
Being a football fan..this makes me sad
These workers should be remembered
Too much oil
no-one should die building your stadiums in inhuman working and living conditions !!
Million die in your own country with poor working condition.
Care about your countrymen workers who die hungry,qatari worker are in far better condition than indian
@@daddy9132 Rarely anyone dies of hunger in South Asian countries now .
@@toxic6085 Lol you don't know anything
Thousands of Indian farmers suicides every year
@@karlhans4116 There are many people around the world who commit suicide bcuz of a big financial loss . Doesn't mean they are starving .
Very good journalism. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for DW news
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" Martin Luther-King 1963.
Kaan-traaversy indeed. Funny you don’t see US, UK, Canadian , or Australian governments bring up the human rights subject
Slavery since the creation of the world! Terrible tragedy: away from the family, abused by his employers. Pain in the soul when hearing this news. Greetings from Medellín Colombia. 🇨🇴
the scariest thing is that the no. of people behind this "model of business" and how many of the world population support this endless ongoing process that keep happening in all facets of life
Why are we still sending them to these countries, let them strive for what they're exploiting. Agents should be punished too.
Yeh. Governments of these countries should just ban their citizens from working in Qatar and similar countries until there's a proper change.
Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Philippines 😔
Don't deliberately show wrong map of India . Sentiments run high . Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and always has been .
For all its flaws worker's rights in Qatar are still far ahead of its neighbors. I would like to see a similar styled documentary on the worker's exploitation and pretty much slave labor taking place in Saudi Arabia and UAE where the Kafala system is still the law. Oh wait those are US allies, all is well there look away.
Norway and others Europeans countries please allow all these laborers to come in your country and let them work under equal rights and humanity but if you can’t do this please let us work here by boycotting the tournament we will loose our jobs and it creates problems for us because if at first place we have a better life in our own country we hadn’t left for Qatar …and yes we know about middle east harsh labor rules but still come to earn some money for our families… i am Pakistani indian Bangladeshis worker 🙏🏻
Praying for Indian workers 🙏🇮🇳
This has been happening to south asian labourer expats since several hundred years in different parts of the world. Whether carribea or fiji or middle east 🙏🏻
Absolutely true. Workers are exploited badly in gulf countries.
Stay home than
Blame all these deaths to Joseph Blatter, and the FIFA itself
Show the correct map of India Bloody....
Infact u have shown differently the non disputed part of Kashmir too(whch is integral part of India)
Players are needing cooling off time in Euro cup. How will they handle the heat in Qatar?
The world cup is gonna be in Nov-Dec. So the weather is gonna be quite chill. like average 15-25 degree celsius. Don't beleive everything what the media says. I live in Qatar myself. I see the real picture....
@@maruf387 u cant see the real picture if u are not one of those workers
Who cares about the players?. They are talking about the workers that died in order for you to watch this obscenity from the comfort of your living room. And they were not paid like footballers
Very informative
it takes balls to openly protest , hats off to the 2 teams openly protesting and hats off to DW for bringing this out !!!!!!!!
37 death but the actual rate is over 7000 of them just to build the stadium
That is a lie
@@karlhans4116 perhaps you are blinded by the truth
@@painwithgain8510 Nope I know truth.
6000+ people died overall in Qatar in
In every county unfortunately construction workers die
India china are even worse than qatar
@@karlhans4116 but Qatar is should have higher standards in construction, but instead they treat every outsiders like dirt and animal just because they have money
I request you DW News, put the real map of India.... Don't be slave of China. 🙂
Love from India. 🇮🇳
you know this is the only map used outside your country right ? its an international media not your national media.
Sad
Very very sad
Must Stop
UN must Stop this
Many not paid wages
Thank goodness china isn’t holding the World Cup any time soon. God knows how many would die during its preparation and construction.
China already has enough infrastructure to hold a world cup unlike Qatar, Qatar had nothing and had to build everything from scratch just for this special occasion.
Thanks from India.. 🙏
For what? For showing Jammu and Kashmir as not part of India? 😂
Qater should look into these matters as a serious issue. Its a matter of pride for the country.
They don’t rlly care they just want the money
@@sharxzy8582 not really,no
I live here,it is clearly the private companies abusing the workers. However,there is always room, in all countries,for more strict laws
What about India, Bangladesh, Pakistan govt?
More than 1600 people from Nepal have already died in Qatar for the construction of worldcup infrastructures. Infact south asian countries people that have died their have reached more than 6000 already.
Turr bro
My terrible, horrible, and hardest experience in life is here in Qatar.
Hypocrisy = fifa and uefa: respect, for the good of the game, fair play, no to racism. Beautiful words only for publicity, nothing will ever change,
German should give work to those worker in germany,they seems worried
Al Jazeera giving full support for this Crime
Families of the people who died should be financially compensated
Qatar belongs to the South Asians, Filipinos, and Egyptians who have built it. One day it will be theirs.
When you see your earlobes.
Qatar was built by Qataris money, South Asians didn't work for free.
@@dzarifzainal2814 Sure explain to me how you will disentangle the two. The earned money by paying slave wages to millions of non-Qataris and working them to death.
Loss of life is tragic and everything in our power needs to be done to avoid it. However, there are currently lives being taken away : innocent women and children are being killed. Amnesty International, human rights organisations and every person around the world must endeavour to stop this.
I was hired in Qatar with an AC technician contract and salary, but I did the work of a maintenance Supervisor. They laid off 120 of us in November 2018 because I had a contract of an AC technician
What I know is that "Thousands of Chinese and Pakistanis workers died during construction of Shahra-e-Resham road". So I think it's normal.
Indian Pakistan there is no importance to human life
This report would have made much sense if there were some comparison with recent world cup organizers.
How was it handled by Russia, Brazil, South Africa, Germany and France?
Qatar Biggest supporter of hamas after iran. Al Jazeera will never show this.
Modi is destroy india lol
Why aren't people protesting against this?
Kafala is still ON in Qatar !!! It was changed , functioned for few months, but created confusion and triggered other issues, so now is again ON.
Great and complete research - congratulation, and I didn't expected anything less from Germans. Now we need you to continue mirroring the real situation in Qatar to the world.
I want to see Al JAzeera report on this...... what a bunch of hypocrites
please cover on other middle east country as well. so that we have a clear view on this situation
a few thousand deaths out of 2 million total workers is actually a very low death rate. There's a higher death rate of similarly aged males in the UK
@Nobby Nobbs It literally is according to a BBC article
Thats not a low death rate.
DW is the best Channel of time.
World Cup over the cementry.
Money can buy peoples life. As a Bangladeshi I know how desperate the young men are just to get a job in Middle East. But, unfortunately when they go there they are confined into their work camp and work site. They barely able travel by their own. It’s really sad that slavery abolished from the world however unfortunately these Arab countries are practicing slavery still today.
Fifa promoting wasting cash on stadiums that will never be used again.
Dark side of this Qatar Stadium.
Rest in peace for those workers.
Map of pak/bangla is large now
The contractors take their passport and force them to work even when the dont want to.
Once my teacher said if you want to go to work Abroad for any professional work never go to Arab nations.
Where is Al Jazeera??