Qatar, FIFA urged to protect 800,000 workers
DUBAI: Qatar must urgently introduce 800,000 migrant construction laborers working in scorching temperatures, Human Rights
- to investigate workers’ deaths and
to put in place the most basic decision to ignore recommendations that they investigate to release data on these deaths,
- tional associations and World
also be demanding answers to two simple questions— how many workers have died since 2012 and
Qatar has introduced laws to stop people working outside between 11:30 am and 3:00 pm 31, when temperatures can reach
But HRW says these measures do
“Limiting work temperatures to clock or calendar—is well within - ment and will help protect hun-
and humidity levels are above
suggests heat stress is a genuine risk to those working outside, and
work- to- rest ratios introduced
organizers can mandate a climate-based work ban, then the Qatar govern
greater transparency by Doha on the
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been 10 deaths reported by World
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