Qatar: Labour reform must not stop at the Qatar World Cup

It must have been very frustrating for the Qataris to see the International Labour Organisation (ILO) distance itself from Qatar’s newly released report, Workers’ Welfare Standards (WWS), a 50-page document intended to demonstrate to the world that Qatar planned to treat its migrant workers better in the run-up to the 2022 World Cup (see page 4). Releasing the report (rather bizarrely subtitled A lasting legacy of human and social development) on 11 February, the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC) noted that it had engaged the ILO “to look at the entire process from recruitment to living and working conditions upon arrival”