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The state of human rights in Qatar is a concern for several non-governmental organisations, such as the Human Rights Watch (HRW), which reported in 2012 that hundreds of thousands of mostly South Asian migrant workers in construction in Qatar risk serious exploitation and abuse, sometimes amounting to forced labour.
Acknowledging the poor working conditions, Qatar introduced significant labour and Kafala reforms for all workers in 2020. This ended the forced labour scheme in Qatar and improved the migrant workers’ living and work conditions, regardless of their nationality. In 2020, Qatar became the second country in the Gulf region to set a minimum wage ...
Amnesty International found that abuses were still occurring despite the nation taking some steps to improve labour rights. [27] Law No. 13 of 2018 abolished exit visas for about 95 percent of migrant workers. [28] On 30 April 2018, the ILO opened its first project office in Qatar to monitor and support the implementation of the new labour laws.
Qatar was urged — or “recommended,” in the formal diplomatic language of the UN rights body — by French delegate Claire Thuaudet to “pursue the implementation of the labor laws” linked to the 2022 World Cup. Sierra Leone said Qatar should “consider abolishing all vestiges” of the labor law system known as kafala.
The U.N.-backed International Labor Organization says reforms introduced follo. When Qatar hosted the World Cup a little over a year ago, the wealthy emirate faced intense scrutiny over its human ...
The government of Qatar has said that far fewer workers were killed or injured, and in 2020 raised the country's minimum wage and applied it to foreign workers for the first time.
The 2005 Labour Law was amended in 2013, which provided Saudi police and labor authorities with the power to enforce the provisions of the Labor Law against undocumented laborers. [109] Punishments included both detention and deportation. [109] The 2005 Labour Law was again amended in 2015, introducing more extensive labor protections.
The International Labour Organization said "Qatar is the first country in the region to introduce a non-discriminatory minimum wage, which is a part of a series of historical reforms of the country's labour laws", [54] while the campaign group Migrant Rights said the new minimum wage was too low to meet migrant workers' need with Qatar's high ...