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Qatar says has paid millions to World Cup workers as HRW urges compensation

  • Hazar Kilani
  • August 14, 2022
Over the past few years, Qatar has seen a number of labour reforms. In 2021, the country introduced the region’s first ever non-discriminatory minimum wage law. With 100 days until…
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Global survey demands FIFA compensate World Cup migrant workers despite lack of support by federations

  • Fatemeh Salari
  • September 21, 2022
Despite brazen support of the compensation programme, none of the qualifying football associations have backed the campaign. A new poll by Amnesty International has shed light on demand to pressure…
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Amnesty International report sheds light on ‘further labour abuses’

  • Menatalla Ibrahim
  • April 10, 2022
Amnesty International is calling on Qatar to urgently investigate abuses in the private security sector.  Several security guards in Qatar are being forced to work more 12-hour shifts a day…
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Human Rights Watch: Workers at prominent firm in Qatar remain unpaid

  • Asmahan Qarjouli
  • March 6, 2022
Qatari authorities have yet to respond to Doha News’ request for a comment. Some workers at the Bin Omran Trading and Contracting (BOTC), a prominent firm covering World Cup related…
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Egypt extends detention of Ola Al-Qaradawi amid calls for release

  • Asmahan Qarjouli
  • July 1, 2021
The daughter of the prominent Muslim cleric and her husband were detained in 2017 over claims that they were associated with a “terrorist” group. An Egyptian court has reportedly extended…
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Qatari women reject ‘distorted’ HRW report

  • Farah AlSharif
  • March 30, 2021
A movement emerged to defend “Qatari values” after a Human Rights Watch report on Qatari women was published. Qatari women took to social media following a Human Rights Watch (HRW)…
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HRW women in Qatar report: Between laws and patriarchy

  • Asmahan Qarjouli
  • March 29, 2021
A 94-page Human Rights Watch report compiled 73 interviews, 50 of which were women affected by the system. Doha News sat down with leading Qatari feminist and Founding Dean of…
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“Qatar’s inadequate labor law reforms undermined its progressive ambitions.”

  • Peter Kovessy
  • January 29, 2016
Sarah Leah Whitson, Human Rights Watch Middle East director, arguing in the organization's World Report 2016 that changes to Qatar's sponsorship system leave the "fundamentally exploitative characteristics of the kafala system in place."
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Rights group: Ashghal mulling workers’ standards for Qatar contractors

  • Peter Kovessy
  • February 6, 2015
A Human Rights Watch researcher said he was told by individuals “close to the government” that Qatar’s public works authority, Ashghal, will require its contractors to follow a workers’ code of conduct.
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