It is the most controversial football World Cup to date, with questions being asked about how Qatar got the right to host it, how it is treating employees who build stadiums in Qatar, and Is Qatar the right place to host the football World Cup or not?
Treatment of foreign workers
Qatar is building seven stadiums, a new airport, a new metro and new roads for the football World Cup.
The final will be played at the stadium, which also hosts nine other matches and is the centerpiece of a new city, but the Qatari government is expected to treat the 30,000 foreign workers working on the new project. Has been criticized.
In 2016, human rights group Amnesty International accused Qatar of forced labor. According to the allegations, many employees were living in poor housing, were not paid their salaries and their passports were confiscated.
Since 2017, the government has introduced measures to prevent foreign workers from working in excessive heat, limit their working hours and improve conditions in residential camps.
However, Human Rights Watch said in a 2021 report that foreign workers are still forced to work illegally and without pay for long hours.
Amnesty International also says that despite the end of the "sponsorship" or sponsorship system (which prevented foreign employees from leaving their jobs without the consent of their employer or employer), employees are still being pressured.
A Qatari government spokesman said "significant progress has been made in ensuring the effective implementation of these reforms."
How many employees have died so far in preparation for the World Cup?
In February 2021, the British newspaper The Guardian reported that 6,500 employees from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka had died in Qatar since winning the bid to host the football World Cup.
The deaths reported by authorities in the five Asian countries were not categorized by occupation, location or occupation, but Fair Square, a labor rights group, said it was possible. Many of the dead were working on World Cup plans.
The Qatari government says the figures are high because they include thousands of foreigners who died after living and working in Qatar for many years. Qatar says many of them will be working in jobs that have nothing to do with the construction industry.
Qatar says 37 workers at the World Cup stadium died between 2014 and 2020, but 34 of them did not work.
The International Labor Organization (ILO) says Qatar did not include sudden and unexpected deaths. The ILO says they suffered a heart attack and a respiratory failure due to a heatstroke, citing "natural causes."
The ILO, with the help of Qatar's government hospitals and ambulance services, has compiled its own death toll, which covers deaths in all World Cup-related projects.
According to ILO figures, 50 workers were killed and more than 500 were seriously injured in Qatar in 2021 alone, while 37,600 workers suffered minor injuries. The main causes of these deaths and injuries were falling from heights, traffic accidents or falling of something.
Allegations of bribery against FIFA officials for hosting World Cup in Qatar
The 2022 FIFA World Cup has been controversial since the FIFA World Governing Body announced in 2010 that Qatar would host the event.
It should be noted that in the competition to host the 2022 Football World Cup, Qatar had surprised everyone by beating the United States, Australia, South Korea and Japan.
The ruling comes after allegations surfaced that FIFA officials were bribed to host the World Cup in Qatar, although an independent FIFA investigation later found no concrete evidence.
Qatar denies the allegations, but French officials are still investigating corruption, and in 2020 the United States accused three FIFA officials of taking bribes.
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| The 2022 FIFA World Cup has been controversial since it was announced in 2010 by FIFA, the world governing body of football. |
Why is Qatar World Cup taking place in winter?
The FIFA World Cup usually takes place in June and July, but the average temperature in Qatar during these months is about 41 degrees Celsius, which can reach 50 degrees, and it is safe to play a 90-minute match in such hot weather. no.
During the bidding process, Qatar promised state-of-the-art air-conditioning technology that would cool stadiums and training pitches to 23 degrees Celsius, but in 2015, FIFA decided to hold the tournament in the winter.
This year's Football World Cup will start on November 21 and the final will be on December 18. It also means that it will disrupt the football season in many countries.
For example, no matches will be played in the English Premier League between November 13 and December 26, and this will result in the 2022/2023 season starting one week earlier than usual and ending one week later.
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