Trapped and dying in Qatar: Foreign slave workers
Posted by: adonis49 on: December 26, 2016
Trapped and dying in Qatar: Foreign slave workers
Forced to work under the desert’s scorching sun, denied food, drinking water, and barred from escaping home, thousands of men in Qatar are modern day slaves. And we can help free them.
Emma Ruby-Sachs – Avaaz posted this Feb. 27, 2015
Last year, one person died every other day building a billion dollar mega-project for Qatar’s 2022 World Cup.
A major part of the project is managed by an American company with a CEO who lives in a quiet part of Colorado.
If more than 1 million of us stand together for freedom, we can confront her with our voices every time she leaves her house to go to work, or to ski, until she takes action.
This same tactic pushed Hilton Hotels to protect women against sex trafficking in days — join the urgent call to help free Qatar’s modern slaves:
Qatar’s “guest worker” program is at the root of the problem.
It lures people from Nepal and Sri Lanka with promises of good jobs, but when they arrive their employers confiscate their passports and force them to work long hours in 50 degree heat with no chance of escape.
The US company, CH2M Hill, say the local contractors and government laws are to blame, but CH2M Hill is the public face of World Cup construction.
Their CEO can and must take a lead role in ensuring we don’t see seven more years of worker deaths. She could even threaten to take their business elsewhere unless this system is changed.
CH2M Hill has a responsibility to help stop this modern day slavery. Our call now could persuade CH2M Hill to speak out and then lead other companies to weigh in until every single worker has the freedom to return home.
Direct your complaints to CH2M Hill CEO Jacqueline Hinman again, and again and again:
One big global outcry at the right time can save thousands of lives.
When Hilton Hotels wasn’t doing enough to protect women and girls from sex trafficking at their hotels, Avaaz staff brought our call to the CEO’s front door and the policy was changed in days. Let’s do it again
Emma, Nell, Mais, Ricken, Alice and the whole Avaaz team
Sources:
Death toll among Qatar’s 2022 World Cup workers revealed (The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/23/qatar-nepal-workers-world-cup-2022-death-toll-doha
Adonis Diaries 
December 29, 2016 at 6:53 pm
Reblogged this on canisgallicus and commented:
Unacceptable exploitation by Qatar. Corporate companies who exploit workers need to be held accountable. RT showed the construction of the European Central Bank; I was shocked that no trade union membership is allowed and it quite clearly stated the status of workers ie the more labour intensive, lower ground floors, work being done by the Turks and the Serbs, whereas the Polish were higher up the scale. Where is Equality in the so called bank of the EU which is about ‘Diversity in Unity’ which it chose as its motto in 2000