Qatar's migrant workers face abuse: Human Rights Watch

Warned the rights group said on Tuesday that migrant construction workers in the State of Qatar, which is preparing to host the 2022 World Cup, and abuse a serious risk link to "forced labor". The government needs to ensure that the advanced, high-tech stadiums it plans to not be built at the World Cup fans at the expense of the workers victims of abuse and exploitation, "said director of the Middle East, Human Rights Watch's Sarah Leah Whitson said in a statement issued at the new International Atomic Energy Agency Doha. The New York-based, said construction workers, mostly from South Asia, "exploitation of high-risk and ill-treatment, sometimes amounting to forced labor," and issued its report: "Building a World Cup best: the protection of migrant workers in Qatar, such as Football 2022" and the report was based on 146-page interviews with 73, said Human Rights Watch said.It migrant construction workers, as well as meetings and correspondence with government officials, employers and contractors, and agents of employment, and diplomats from labor-sending countries, and advocates working, and the problems migrant workers face include "recruitment fees exorbitant, which can take years to pay off, and the confiscation of employers routine workers' passports, and the system of Qatar to take care of the restrictive control gives employers too much on their employees. "The workers set of problems, including non-payment of wages, deductions from salaries is illegal, overcrowded and unsanitary camps, work, working conditions and unsafe", and said to him.The Human Rights Watch that the national laws also prevent migrant workers from unionising or beaten, in violation of the regulations of the International Labour Organization that define freedom of association as the core of the right to work.Become the energy-rich Gulf emirate last year, the first Arab country to give the rights to host the World Cup football in 2022.It announced developments several billions of dollars in preparation for this event, including air conditioning and courts to deal with the high temperature and humidity in the desert state. Said Human Rights Watch that Qatar may recruit up to a million additional migrant construction workers in the next ten years in preparation for tournament.It said migrant workers already represent 94% of the workforce in Qatar, and the highest rate in the world of immigrants to the citizens.