Qatar World Cup report reveals 34 stadium worker deaths in six years
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Latest figures show nine stadium worker deaths in 2019 alone, as human rights organisations criticise delay in implementing labour reform
Nine migrant labourers working on the stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar died in 2019, the “supreme committee” organising the event has announced, bringing the number of deaths on World Cup projects to 34, since construction began six years ago.
31 of the deaths, including the nine who died last year, are classified as “non-work related”, a term the supreme committee uses to describe deaths that largely occur off the worksite, most of which are attributed to sudden and unexplained cardiac or respiratory failure. Continue reading...
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