Amnesty International conducted research into the treatment of migrant workers in Qatar’s private security sector. As part of the research, Amnesty International contacted FIFA to seek details about specific due diligence it had undertaken into three security companies, as well as more broadly....

The final countdown to football’s next World Cup in November 2022 has started. But despite introducing important legal reforms, Qatar has still not delivered on its promise to end labour abuses and exploitation of its more than two million migrant workers. This report demonstrates that the past...

Over the last decade, thousands of young migrant workers have died suddenly and unexpectedly in Qatar despite passing their mandatory medical tests before travelling to the country. Yet the Qatari authorities have to date failed to properly investigate their deaths in way that would make it...

Malcolm Bidali, a Kenyan national, who was forcibly disappeared by Qatari authorities on 4 May 2021 and held in solitary confinement for a month, has finally been allowed to leave the country after paying a hefty fine for his human rights activism. The 28-year-old is a security guard, blogger and...

Letter from Julie Verhaar, Amnesty International’s Acting Secretary General, to Mr Gianni Infantino, FIFA President, calling on FIFA to take urgent and concrete action to ensure the 2022 World Cup leaves a positive and lasting legacy for all migrant workers in Qatar.

In the decade since Qatar successfully bid to stage the 2022 FIFA World Cup, reports of exploitation and labour abuse have consistently tarnished preparations. Qatar has a major opportunity to prove to the world that it is serious about workers’ rights. This report highlights that Qatar has made...

As part of its research into the treatment of migrant domestic workers in Qatar, Amnesty international wrote to the Qatar Government on 24 September 2020 sharing its main findings and seeking an official response to these. Below is the response from the Qatar authorities, received on 19 October...

As part of its research into the treatment of migrant domestic workers in Qatar, Amnesty international wrote to the Qatar Government on 27 January and 23 July 2020, requesting information and data on this issue. Below are the responses from the Qatar authorities, received on 8 October 2020. This is...

This report looks at how the serious flaws in Qatar’s laws and systems of implementation continue to fail the most vulnerable people in the country – the army of 173,000 domestic workers, most of whom are women. Despite the introduction in 2017 of a Domestic Workers Law, many of these women...

Qatari authorities continue to exercise arbitrary executive power by placing administrative sanctions on individuals without any judicial process or disclosed legal basis, in some cases seemingly as punishment for political opinions. These actions illustrate the structural problem of a government...

Amnesty International conducted research into the treatment of migrant workers helping to build a FIFA World Cup 2022 stadium in Qatar. As part of the research, Amnesty International contacted companies in the supply chain to seek their response to allegations of abuse on the stadium and...

As part of its investigation into the treatment of migrant workers on a FIFA World Cup 2022 stadium in Qatar, Amnesty international wrote to the Qatar Government, seeking its response to allegations of labour abuse. This is the response from Qatar’s ‘s Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour...