{"id":1670432,"date":"2022-10-03T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670432"},"modified":"2022-10-03T16:08:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:08:38","slug":"soccer-informal-workers-at-risk-of-exploitation-in-qatar-during-world-cup-u-s-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soccer-informal-workers-at-risk-of-exploitation-in-qatar-during-world-cup-u-s-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Informal workers at risk of exploitation in Qatar during World Cup \u2013 U.S. official"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsoccer-informal-workers-at-risk-of-exploitation-in-qatar-during-world-cup-u-s-official%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670432&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Andrew  Mills<\/p>\n<p>DOHA (Reuters) \u2013     Workers in Qatar\u2019s informal economy are especially at risk of exploitation during this year\u2019s soccer World Cup and Doha must strive to prosecute human traffickers and identify their victims, U.S. Under Secretary of State\u00a0Uzra Zeya told Reuters.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>The Gulf Arab state has come under intense scrutiny and criticism from human rights groups over its treatment of migrant workers in the run up to hosting the tournament next month, the first Middle Eastern country to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe World Cup presents a challenge in terms of the increased likelihood or possibilities to exploit vulnerable migrant workers and it\u2019s all the more important to enforce the laws in place and to see more efforts to prosecute perpetrators of human trafficking,\u201d Zeya said on Sunday during a visit to Doha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is often a hidden crime and for particularly those in the informal economy \u2026 who have less access, let\u2019s say, to law enforcement or to other institutions in place of protection,\u201d added Zeya, Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Migrant workers and other foreigners make up the majority of  the Gulf state\u2019s 2.8 million population. It is recruiting thousands of overseas temporary workers to augment its workforce during the month-long World Cup, when it expects 1.2 million visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The government has said its labour system is a work in progress, but denied a 2021 Amnesty International report that thousands of migrant workers were still being exploited.<\/p>\n<p>Zeya commended labour reforms introduced by Qatar in recent years but acknowledged \u201cchallenges\u201d implementing the new rules which include protections against non-payment of wages, a monthly minimum wage of 1,000 riyals ($275) and allowing workers to change employers more easily. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf fully implemented, they would really represent Qatar assuming a great leadership role regionally,\u201d Zeya said, adding she was \u201cheartened\u201d the government recently reopened a shelter for human trafficking victims that shut during the pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>Qatar has made \u201csignificant efforts\u201d towards combating human trafficking but does not meet the U.S. government\u2019s minimum requirements for the elimination of human trafficking, according to the State Department\u2019s 2022 Trafficking in Persons report.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting and writing by Andrew Mills; Editing by Ken Ferris)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/soccer-informal-workers-at-risk\/attachment\/u-s-under-secretary-of-state-for-civilian-security-democracy-and\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI920WG-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI920WG-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Mills DOHA (Reuters) \u2013 Workers in Qatar\u2019s informal economy are especially at risk of exploitation during this year\u2019s soccer World Cup and Doha must strive to prosecute human<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sports\/soccer-informal-workers-at-risk\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=soccer-informal-workers-at-risk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}