The True Cost Of The Qatar 2022 World Cup | True Cost

Heartbreaking  Truth  Qatar 2022 World Cup

THE SCENE CAME OUT FROM FIFA WORLD CUP 2022 IN                                             QATAR

Why Fans don't want to sit in a stadium? Thatworkers died!!! to build it takes the joy and the love that they have for soccerand tramples....

                                          

The streets of Doha erupted after Qatarwon its bid to host one of the biggestsporting events in the world the 2022FIFA World Cup here was a tiny countrywith just one major stadium and scorching Heat Becoming  The First in The Middle East to host the cup the oil Rich nation has reportedly spent over 229 billion dollars preparing for the tournament that's more than 16 times

What Russia said it spent on the 2018World Cup but behind the glitz andcelebrity endorsements lie accusationsof corruption and human rights abusesfans don't want to sit in a stadium thatworkers died to build it takes the joy and the love that they have for soccerand tramples on it Manju Devi's husband was one of thousands who lost their lives building the venues so what's the true cost of having a small designation host the World Cup the winner is Qatar today we celebrate but tomorrow the work begins Qatar had just 12 years to complete the largest infrastructure project in World Cup history the Gulf State had to build eight state-of-the-art stadiums install new roads and Rail lines and expand its airport not to mention find accommodation for over 1 million Spectators there's a big question mark over what all this infrastructure is going to be used for or whether indeed there will be the demand for IT post-world cup organizers have never admitted to the 229 billion dollar price tag but qatar's Finance Minister said 500 million dollars was spent every week for years to meet the deadline a major expense was the cooling systems that were added to all but one Stadium this roughly tripled construction costs at Al yanub Stadium which was one of the first to be completed it's not just the fans and players that need cooling it's the grass too the country flew in grass seed from the U.S and grew it in massive nurseries like this the turf used for the pitches requires special Cooling and watering to stay in Peak condition but to make all this happen Qatar needed a vast labor force migrant workers were behind its skyscrapers Resorts and man-made Islands but this was on another scale guitar recruited hundreds of thousands of workers mainly from India Nepal and Bangladesh through agencies in their home countries just to secure a job migrants had little choice but to pay recruitment fees of up to four thousand dollars before they left the country and once they got to Qatar they were already in debt and trapped in a system known in the Middle East as kafala the kafala system can be a form of modern day slavery and the features of it the mount in some cases to force labor it meant workers visas were sponsored by an employer who had complete control not only over their job but also their immigration status so a laborer might have a passport confiscated a worker might not be able to change jobs Qatar would not allow exit visas and if your employer is abusive you have no way out this is diplal mojato at home in Nepal he spent seven years working onconstruction sites in Qatar sity in reality the work turned out to behard labor foreign he even worked through the summer months when temperatures could top 110 degrees Fahrenheit luxman kamati shares a similar story let's ask it is a chronic back injury from his time in Qatar prevents him from working today sometimes workers weren't paid for months those working on the Khalifa stadium in 2016 were only making roughly 800 Qatari reals a month or 220 dollars at the time Qatar didn't even have a set minimum wage but it was still more than most could make in their home countries so they kept coming employers provided workers with accommodation that was often cramped dirty and unsafe there were a number of important investigations showing not enough water too many people living together even if you got sick it wouldn't be clear how quickly you could get to a hospital many who travel to Qatar for work never lived to tell their story Myra katun says her husband Muhammad expected to clean houses in Qatar but when he got there his sponsor gave him a construction job instead um but Muhammad never came home he was one of hundreds of Migrant workers who died by Suicide foreign system in 2016 but human rights groups say it never really went away even since reforms were brought in in 2016-2017 and 2018 we've still documented some of the Hallmarks of the kafala system and this includes passport confiscation wage cheating cracking down on workers who try to strike about wage non-payment or poor working conditions only in 2017 did Qatar prohibit work during the hottest hours over the summer months but outside of that window the heat could still be intense enough to trigger heart related illness and even death the guardian found that there were over six and a half thousand migrant worker deaths between 2010 and 2020. but Qatari authorities registered 70 of them as natural deaths from Sudden and unexplained heart or respiratory failure leaving many families without answers part of the problem is that the government has refused to do autopsies they haven't wanted to know the cause of death because then it would be chalked up as a death that was preventable under pressure from Human Rights organizations Qatar shut down more than 300 labor sites in 2019 and set new guidelines around heat stress a year later workers were granted the freedom to leave the country without an exit permit and change jobs without their employers consent but some families who lost loved ones were left without compensation if the migrant workers went to Qatar to pay for their children's education or to elevate the family out of poverty and that migrant worker comes home in a coffin the consequences could be catastrophic and they could Ripple out for decades in May 2022 human rights groups called on FIFA to create a compensation fund for migrant workers that equals the World Cup prize of 440 million dollars the World Cup has prompted huge attention on labor practices not just in Qatar but in the Gulf more broadly and I think that that is a big positive in October 2022 FIFA said Qatar had made real tangible progress in addressing labor rights issues organizers made the inevitable decision to push the opening of the World Cup to the cooler month of November back in 2015. although the average temperature can still reach as high as 85 degrees Fahrenheit the move was very disruptive to football leagues especially in Europe but many players are now perhaps more concerned about the reports of violations of Migrant workers rights in Qatar one of my favorite images is of the German national football team the players put human rights across their chests so increasingly athletes are saying we don't want to play in a stadium that workers died to build a number of teams are planning to make a statement on the field like Denmark whose players will wear toned down shirts in protest meanwhile the host nation has worked hard to polish its image Qatar is paying David Beckham 277 million dollars to serve as an ambassador for the 2022 World Cup promotional videos paint guitar as the perfect tourist destination and they seem to be working the tournament's chief organizer said there's been a record-breaking demand for tickets Qatar expects to make as much as 17 billion dollars in revenue from the World Cup but a big question is how will a country that's nearly 200 times smaller than Saudi Arabia accommodate all these spectators today Qatar tourism estimates it has about 30 000 regular hotel rooms but 80 percent of those have been booked by FIFA for official guests as Alternatives Qatar has leased two cruise ships that can fit just under 10000 people called on homeowners to rent their properties to fans and coordinated shuttle flights so visitors can stay in neighboring countries tourists are also being offered tents in the desert but for lgbtq fans the main concern isn't where to stay in Qatar bu whether or not they will even be safe there at all we do not stop anybody from coming to their health with any different backgrounds any different belief Qatar is a very welcoming country Qatari law tells a different story homosexuality is still illegal and punishable by prison some hotels have said they will refuse accommodation for same-sex couples there are many elements of the World Cup preparations that people criticize about Qatar and we're often with a lot of justification but the one which I think is very unfair is the suggestion that Qatar somehow is a country that doesn't understand or doesn't like football and if one of the biggest sporting competitions on Earth is to go ahead human rights organizations at least wanted to serve as a lesson the idea is there should never again be a World Cup that is so Rife with human rights abuses and that the beautiful game of football should never be associated with migrant worker deaths                                                                          👍💕💖💗🎪Thank you🎈🎈🎇👍👌