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#KAFALA In December of 2010, the FIFA executive committee announced that Qatar would host the World Cup in 2022. Since then, nearly 4,000 migrant workers have lost their lives while constructing stadiums

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May 28, 2016

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Title	#KAFALA In December of 2010, the FIFA executive committee announced that Qatar would host the World Cup in 2022. Since then, nearly 4,000 migrant workers have lost their lives while constructing stadiums
Author	Imnotmrabut
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Date	May 28, 2016 9:48 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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“Qatar still refuses to make public the actual death toll of migrant workers or the real causes of death. The vast majority of the workers are working to deliver the huge World Cup infrastructure programme by the 2022 deadline. By analysing Qatar’s own statistics and health reports over the past three years, previous reports of 4,000 workers dying by 2022 are a woeful underestimate. The real fatality rate is over 1,000 per year, meaning that 7,000 workers will die by 2022. Qatar hospital emergency departments are receiving 2,800 patients per day – 20% more from 2013 to 2014,” said Sharan Burrow.

http://www.ituc-csi.org/new-ituc-report-qatar-profit-and

"Previous analyses of Qatar’s statistics show almost nine in ten of the two million foreigners are of working age. And roughly three quarters of these working age migrants are male, due to the high number of labourers in historically male-dominated industries such as construction and transport.

http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/qatar_en_web.pdf

The Qatar Health Report (2013)>

notes that: “The non-Qatari population generally does not reside in Qatar in old age, and is screened for select diseases before granted residency.” And that: “The higher proportion of deaths due to external causes in the non-Qatari population compared to the Qatari population likely reflects the fact that the majority of the non-Qatari population is male and works in higher-risk industries.”

In response to media coverage highlighting workers’ deaths, the Qatari government recently stated that
there have been zero fatalities during the country’s tournament construction boom. Qatar also claimed that the fatality rates for different nationalities were similar to the rates of comparable populations in their home
countries, citing the “Global Burden of Disease” project. One of the authors of that study, Professor Theo Voss of the University of Washington told the New York Times that Qatar’s claims were meaningless because
researchers considered deaths from cardiac arrest to be a “garbage code” that was not specific enough to
describe the true cause of death. He also said that the rate of reported workplace deaths in Qatar appeared
somewhat elevated compared with the rates in coun tries like India

http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/qatar_en_web.pdf