(MENAFN- Daily News Egypt) ew report from Amnesty International slams Qatar for not living up to promises to improve workers' rights and adds to growing international criticism of Qatar's inability to properly implement adopted policies.
World Cup host Qatar and FIFA are back to square one in terms of public diplomacy, with the Amnesty International report taking the Gulf state to task for failing to implement its lofty promises to significantly improve labourers' working and living conditions. The report also condemns the world football body for not ensuring that Qatar lives up to international standards.
The report, The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game, provides a damning assessment of the state of affairs five years after FIFA awarded the 2022 World Cup hosting rights to Qatar. Amnesty interviewed more than 200 labourers working on the refurbishment of the Khalifa International Stadium, one of eight planned facilities for the World Cup, and the Aspire Zone sports complex, a pillar of Qatar's sports infrastructure, who all complained about various violations of their human rights.
The report was published days after the International Labour Organisation (ILO) put Qatar on notice that it no longer can delay acting on promises made in the wake of its successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup.
In a rare move, the ILO threatened to establish a Commission of Inquiry if Qatar fails to act in the coming year. Such commissions are among the ILO's most powerful tools to ensure compliance with international treaties. The UN body has only established 13 such commissions in its century-long history. The last such commission was created in 2010 to force Zimbabwe to live up to its obligations.
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