Representatives of the British opposition demanding a “red card for Qatar”
Representatives in the British Parliament demanded the opposition Labor Party to support a campaign aimed at stripping Qatar from the right to organize the FIFA World Cup in 2022 unless the conditions of foreign workers improve.
Among the campaign’s participants are parliamentarians, Jem Murphy, Minister of International Development in the Shadow Government, and Ivord was charged with the Minister of Sports in the shadow government, and Stephen Hyperren.
Members of Parliament have joined activists from the Union of Construction Workers Union, Auxiliary Industries and Technicians “Yosat” in calling for action in this regard.
In the match, which preceded the annual conference of the Labor Party, which was held in Manchester, between members of Parliament and journalists, activists raised a huge banner bearing the phrase “showed a red card for Qatar.”
Workers’ unions are organizing a campaign to pressure the FIFA to tell Qatar that it has 12 months to end the “extreme exploitation of foreign workers” or to strip the right to organize the FIFA World Cup.
“The pressure is increasing on Qatar to stop the exploitation of foreign workers and their death. FIFA must move and tell Qatar that unless the workers are stopped, it will be stripped of the right to organize the championship,” says Steve Murphy, Secretary -General of Yoskat.
Forced disappearance
The Qatari authorities had arrested two British citizens who were investigating the treatment that migrant workers in the Gulf emirate have several days before they were released and allowed them to return to Britain.
The two British citizens, Krishna Obadaya, and Gundif Gemiri, had remained in detention for nine days, then they had to wait 11 days before the Doha authorities allow them to leave the country and return to Britain.
The Qatari authorities had initially denied their knowledge of the fate of the two men who disappeared in the country after the twenty -first of last August.
However, the authorities returned and said that the two men were arrested “for violating the laws of the country.”
The two were working for the World Rights and Development Network, based in Norway.
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The exploitation of foreign workers
Qatar has been criticizing many international human rights organizations “for compelling migrant workers to work in conditions similar to slavery.”
In May, Qatar announced that it was in the process of amending the labor laws in force in which migrant workers are restricted to work with one employer.
Human rights organizations say that this system – known as the “sponsorship system” – is similar to slavery. And press reports said that some workers are being demobilized from work and left homeless without work or shelter, forcing them to work with less than a dollar per day.
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