Our series on “the building sites of shame in Qatar”
It was December 2, 2010. In his hands, the president of Fifa, Sepp Blatter, holds in front of the camera a small piece of paper on which is written “Qatar”.
A very small country has just obtained the right to organize the biggest sporting event, the Football World Cup.
Since then, twelve years have passed and with a lot of controversy: to prepare for its World Cup and its multiple construction sites – stadiums, metro, infrastructure – Qatar has employed thousands of immigrant workers in terrible conditions.
A few days before kick-off, Le Parisien looks in five episodes at these “construction sites of shame”.
But how many deaths have there really been on the construction sites?
Without remains or compensation, the impossible mourning of the families of victims
The mysterious death of Englishman Zac Cox
Vinci, Bouygues, Accor… What French companies are accused of
Since 2010, have working conditions changed for migrants?
Seven years.
It will have taken nearly seven years, between the awarding of the World Cup to Qatar on December 2, 2010 and the installation in Doha of an office of the International Labor Organization (ILO), agency of the UN responsible in particular for promoting labor rights to governments.
Seven years for the international community, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), trade unions or the media to realize the extent of the work to be done there, and can finally act in this direction.
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