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Death in the Desert

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To Qatari Emir Tamim:

As concerned citizens and football fans we call on you to urgently investigate the conditions faced by workers building infrastructure for the World Cup in Qatar and ensure that Qatar updates its laws and standards to ensure that no slave labour is used in that country. The reputations of Qatar and the World Cup hang in the balance.
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Death in the Desert
Qatar’s oil-backed boom hides a deadly secret. Thousands of Nepali and Indian workers are lured to the desert to provide for their families, then perish in a system that’s little more than modern slavery. This week we can start to change that in Qatar and across the Middle East. Nine out of ten of the workers who’re creating entire islands, and vast new buildings, are foreign and enter Qatar through a system that allows their employers to remove their passports, refuse them water, and stop them shifting jobs. But brave investigators have just blown the lid off this awful, outdated, system and Qatar’s young, new Emir is working out how to save his dream of using sport to build his country’s reputation. Qatar’s in the spotlight like never before because the World Cup is supposed to head there in 2022. Thursday will see a media frenzy at a FIFA world football meeting in Zurich. If we get to a million in time we’ll deliver our voices in a way that the media, and the Emir can’t miss. Sign to scrap these outrages and save thousands of lives:

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