migrant workers

World Cup workers: Beatings, jail and deportation

Threats of rape. Jailed for asking your employer to pay the promised salary. Beatings. Migrants working on World Cup projects tell stories of horrific abuse.

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13 July, 2023

The climate of fear

Mohamed works as a security guard at a World Cup stadium. He has not been able to sleep for days – the stress and the anxiety getting to him. He wants to return to Dhaka as soon as possible.

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17 December, 2022

Editorial – Josimar International Edition

Politicians, leading academics and international trade unions have praised Qatar for its reforms since they were given the hosting rights to the 2022 World Cup in 2010, following a corrupt process. But how are things really on the ground?

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26 October, 2022

Legal threat from the Supreme Committee

On the morning of Sunday 7 November 2021 Josimar received a letter from the Norwegian law firm Simonsen Vogt Wiig representing the Qatar 2022 organising committee (The Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy) claiming our article "The trial of Abdullah Ibhais" was defamatory in nature and in violation of several laws.

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9 November, 2021

The trial of Abdullah Ibhais

Was he sentenced to five years in prison on trumped-up charges because he was defending migrant workers in Qatar? And was all this orchestrated by his former employer, The Supreme Committee of Delivery and Legacy, the organisation responsible for the 2022 World Cup?

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25 October, 2021

migrant workers

World Cup workers: Beatings, jail and deportation

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The climate of fear

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Editorial – Josimar International Edition

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Legal threat from the Supreme Committee

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The trial of Abdullah Ibhais

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