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Can Anyone Stop the World Cup in Qatar?
An earlier estimate by the International Trade Union Confederation suggested that these practices would leave a total of 4,000 workers deadfrom accidents, stress, and poor living conditions by 2022.
Migrant workers in Qatar, who live in dusty labor camps and have few rights, have been dying with alarming regularity for years. Even the Qatari government accepts this.
There is some debate about how many have died building stadiums and infrastructure for the World Cup, but there’s no comparison between the deadliness of Qatar’s building effort and those of other recent sporting spectacles. Estimates early last year placed the death toll between 900 and 1,200 workers; compared with the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Qatar wins this ignominious honor by an order of magnitude or more …. http://foreignpolicy.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/03/can-anyone-stop-world-cup-in-qatar.html
