Shantytown life: A construction worker rests during his lunch break in Doha. As Qatar prepares to host the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament, and is pouring billions of dollars into an infrastructure programme that will require vast numbers of foreign workers, its treatment of migrant labour is coming under the international spotlight.
As Qatar’s construction boom gathers pace ahead of the 2022 World Cup, the Indian government confirms scale of death toll.
MORE than 500 Indian migrant workers have died in Qatar since January 2012, revealing for the first time the shocking scale of fatalities among those building the infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup.
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