Qatar has introduced a piece protection investigation into the loss of life of a employee after reviews {that a} guy died at a coaching website throughout the World Cup, marked via controversy over the host nation’s remedy of migrant employees.
Nasser Al Khater, the manager government of the 2022 World Cup in Doha, showed to Reuters {that a} employee died, with out offering specifics. Al Khater additionally said that “death is a natural part of life” whilst providing condolences to the employee’s circle of relatives and voicing sadness at newshounds’ questions.
“Death is a natural part of life, whether it’s at work, whether it’s in your sleep,” Khater advised reviews. “We’re in the middle of a World Cup. And we have a successful World Cup. And this is something you want to talk about right now?
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In a statement, Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Al Khater’s remarks. “The Qatari official’s comment displays a callous disregard for the migrant worker who has died,” HRW representative Rothna Begum said. “His statement that deaths happen and that it’s natural when it does, ignores that many migrant worker deaths were preventable.”
In an reliable observation, Qatar executive officers mentioned: “If the investigation concludes that safety protocols were not followed, the company will be subject to legal action and severe financial penalties. The statement added that “the rate of work-related accidents has consistently declined in Qatar since strict health and safety standards were introduced and enforcement has been stepped up.”
The Athletic reported on Wednesday that a Filipino man contracted to fix lights in a car park at the Sealine Resort – the training site for the Saudi Arabia national team, died after he “slipped off a ramp while walking alongside [a] vehicle and fell headfirst against concrete”.
Citing more than one unnamed assets, the document claimed the twist of fate took place throughout the World Cup, however didn’t specify when. The lodge didn’t in an instant reply to a Reuters question.
Qatar had come underneath expanding scrutiny via human rights teams since being awarded World Cup webhosting rights in 2010 over its remedy of migrant employees, who account for almost all of the Gulf state’s inhabitants.
The match, the primary to be held within the Middle East the place different nations have additionally confronted complaint over migrant employees’ rights, has been mired in controversy with some football stars and European reliable criticizing Qatar’s human rights file, together with on labour, LGBT+ and girls’s rights.
Qatar’s World Cup organisers, the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, mentioned in a observation that it used to be no longer concerned within the Qatari investigation as “the deceased (was) working as a contractor, not under the remit of the SC”.
The collection of work-related deaths in Qatar is in dispute. The Guardian reported remaining 12 months that no less than 6,500 migrant employees – a lot of them prone to had been operating on World Cup arrangements – had died in Qatar because it received the proper to level the development, in step with the paper’s calculations from reliable information.
In reaction, Qatar has mentioned that the collection of deaths used to be proportionate to the dimensions of the migrant body of workers, and integrated many non-manual employees, including that each and every existence misplaced used to be a tragedy.
The SC has in the past mentioned that 3 work-related deaths and 37 non-work-related deaths have took place on World Cup linked initiatives. In a contemporary TV interview, Hassan al-Thawadi, the secretary basic of the SC, estimated that the collection of migrant employees who’ve died on World Cup-related initiatives used to be “between 400 and 500.”
