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Nov 1, 2022 - 7 min
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‘They used me and threw me out’: the woes of Qatar’s World Cup workers
7 mins | Nov 1, 2022
The World Cup has highlighted Qatar's poor treatment of foreign labourers. Despite the host city's reassurances disputing media claims that thousands have died during their 12-year World Cup construction phase, Simeon Kerr and Pramod Acharya discuss the appalling conditions that the imported workers who have built the infrastructure necessary for the tournament have endured.
