Dubai - Qatar's Filthy Labour Camps

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1. Reform Qatari style: Employers to hold workers’ passports & impose travel bans, Amnesty warns (RT, Dec 13, 2016):
   
   "Migrant workers in Qatar remain at risk of being subjected to “forced labor” despite “meager reforms,” Amnesty International has warned, noting that many of the exploited laborers have been tasked with building the 2022 World Cup stadiums.
   
   Qatar says the new law that comes into effect on Tuesday will give workers more flexibility, freedom, and protection. The country has brought in hundreds of thousands of workers from countries including India, Nepal, and Bangladesh to build projects related to the World Cup.
   
   However, Amnesty says the law “barely scratches the surface” in addressing Qatar’s flawed labor system, and still leaves migrant workers at the mercy of “exploitative bosses” and at risk of being subjected to “forced labor.”.
   
   Amnesty pointed out three key points in the new legislation that it found particularly alarming.
   
   The first is that migrant workers will still need to obtain their employer’s permission to change jobs. If they change jobs during a contract period, they will face criminal charges for “absconding.”Contracts can be valid for up to five years. Workers will also still need exit permits to leave the country, which can be blocked by their employer. Lastly, employers will be able to keep workers’ passports, something that has been illegal up until now.
   
   “By making it easier for employers to confiscate workers’ passports, the new law could even make the situation worse for some workers. The tragedy is that many workers think that this new law will be the end of their ordeal,” James Lynch, deputy director for global issues at Amnesty International, said in a statement.
   
   The new legislation will replace Qatar’s sponsorship law, which forces foreign workers to seek their employer’s consent to change jobs or leave the country. That 2009 law has been flagged as a key driver of abuse of migrant workers.
   
   However, Amnesty says that the revised legislation is simply a new name for the old system.
   
   “This new law may get rid of the word ‘sponsorship’ but it leaves the same basic system intact. It is good that Qatar has accepted that its laws were fueling abuse, but these inadequate changes will continue to leave workers at the mercy of exploitative bosses,” Lynch said.
   
   Lynch also addressed FIFA, the governing body tasked with organizing the football World Cup, saying that “FIFA, its sponsors and foreign governments seeking business ties with Qatar cannot and must not use this reform to claim that the problem of migrant labor abuse has been solved.”..."
2. good more then us
3. big hop new ruls
4. is anyone know about Equinox company are they hire works from other country like gardener, pls help me to know about this company one of my brother is going to come so pls pls tell about this company thaks you.
5. It''s due to poverty these migrant workers leave their homes for a better future.It's upon reaching their new destination the nightmare begins.Nepalese should be briefed before leaving their home land the harsh realities they would face in a foreign land.Certainly it's not a bed of roses.
6. Thanks for the ideas you have contributed here.
7. Its filthy because THEY dont fucking clean up after themselves.
8. Friggn garbage everywhere! At least they can clean up after themselves and have SELF respect.
9. now we all know why thet are the richest country in the world.. fucking pethetic
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11. Islam is Evil.
    All Muslim should come back to mother religion Hinduism.
    They are welcome any way.
12. Bootstraps
    Free market
    It's all the gov't's fault
13. I argue that the companies target should not only be maximizing their profits but also to pay fair salaries to employers. Its something they cannot not to do. Lets say somebody comes to clean my room, say 4 hours. If I then offer $1 for that work and say "thank you, welcome to work again!"... and the worker accepts that $1, is everything right? well, everything is not right! Becouse in my country you get one loaf of bread with $1 or one hamburger. Its just not right. So even if he desides to accept my $1 (for some reason, does not matter really).. I should NOT give him so little money. I MUST give him at least some decent $5-$10 per hour. Its not right that I would in my country give $1. It does not even matter whether he asks it from me or not... I MUST give it to him. It does not matter what the law even says, whethere there is minimum salary or not. If afterwards he desides (volunteerly) to give me that money back, its his desision, but I must first give that money to him.
14. haha, and this is one of most wealthy countries in the world according to statistics
15. Qatar and all Arab dictatorships must be erased from the face of the earth by nuclear weapons.
16. they must clean them selfs and camps ...
17. Lol these people are mostly from Bangladesh and Pakistan, do you have ANY clue what the hell their country looks like? it's a literal SHIT HOLE they live in literal FECES it's nothing new to them. If anything, that's a luxury that they have running water, and beds with mattresses on them........ Likkkkeee?
18. It wouldn't look that bad if they clean up after themselves.
19. These camps were clean when they arrived! They need to clean up after them selfs. The rooms look clean they should clean their dam bathrooms. I only here what they don't get. No one is saying about the good stuff. The kitchen is theirs and they need to clean them. A bunch of ungrateful dirty workers that should go home!