{"id":841,"date":"2013-11-22T12:05:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T12:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeanlambertmep.org.uk\/?p=841"},"modified":"2014-04-28T16:10:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T16:10:15","slug":"credibility-of-football-at-stake-over-slavery-in-qatar-meps-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanlambertmep.org.uk\/2013\/11\/22\/credibility-of-football-at-stake-over-slavery-in-qatar-meps-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Credibility of football at stake over &#8216;slavery&#8217; in Qatar, MEPs warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\nP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); widows: 2; orphans: 2; }P.western { font-family: \"Times New Roman\",serif; font-size: 12pt; }P.cjk { font-family: \"Times New Roman\",serif; font-size: 12pt; }P.ctl { font-family: \"Times New Roman\",serif; font-size: 12pt; }A:link { color: rgb(0, 0, 255); }\n--><\/style>\n<p>The credibility of the World Cup \u2013 and the entire football sector \u2013 is at stake over the mistreatment of thousands of migrant workers in Qatar, Members of the European Parliament have warned.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar will host the World Cup in 2022 \u2013 but many of the venues are being constructed by migrant workers in \u2018slave-like\u2019 conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 90% of the Gulf state\u2019s workforce are foreign migrants \u2013 mostly from India and Nepal \u2013 and many are lured to take jobs in the country\u2019s construction boom with lies about the work they will be doing, and are underpaid, forced to live in squalid and overcrowded camps and denied free drinking water in conditions described as \u2018modern day slavery\u2019 by human rights organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Now a group of MEPs \u2013 including London\u2019s Green MEP Jean Lambert \u2013 have called on the nation to sign up to international human rights and workers\u2019 rights treaties designed to improve their conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Their recommendations were adopted by the European Parliament yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Lambert, speaking ahead of the vote, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe credibility of the whole football sector is at stake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s vital that the conditions of World Cup workers \u2013 and many other migrant workers in the country \u2013 are improved immediately, and that the EU, and FIFA, send a strong and clear message to Qatar that the rest of the world won\u2019t tolerate a World Cup realized with the assistance of modern slavery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the highest proportion of migrant workers in the world, and 500,000 more World Cup workers on their way (in a country whose population is only about two million), it\u2019s urgent \u2013 for the sake of the workers themselves and the reputation of the World Cup and Qatar itself\u2013 that Qatar enforces the law already in place and signs up to UN and International Labour Organisation treaties designed to improve the rights of all migrant workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn short, we\u2019re seeing the ugly side of the beautiful game here, and Qatar really must clean up its act.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The credibility of the World Cup \u2013 and the entire football sector \u2013 is at stake over the mistreatment of thousands of migrant workers in Qatar, Members of the European Parliament have warned. 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