Please tell me, is there any way to get out of here? We are going totally mad.”
That’s a construction worker from Nepal, interviewed by Amnesty International, who is working in Qatar, where a building boom is taking place in advance of the 2022 World Cup of soccer. The worker has been unpaid for seven months, and prevented from leaving Qatar for three months. On one construction project, Nepalese workers said they were “treated like cattle.” Employees worked up to 12 hour days, seven days a week, including during Qatar’s brutally hot summer months.