Qatar: Criticism of new report on workers’ welfare
Issue 964
- 21 Feb 2014
| 2 minute read
Any hope that Qatar’s 50-page report, Workers’ Welfare Standards (WWS), might have reduced the international pressure for labour reform seemed to evaporate within hours of its publication on 11 February. Following much media attention about the plight of migrant workers – including highly damaging reports about the deaths of hundreds of Nepalese and Indian workers – Qatar had hoped to prove that it was improving standards ahead of the Fifa 2022 World Cup, but the WWS quickly attracted further criticism for not going far enough.
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