Vinod Kumar grew up in India loving soccer — so he was thrilled to get a job building World Cup stadiums in Qatar. But he never came home. He's one of the thousands of World Cup workers that human rights investigators say died there. This is his story.
there have been"noticeable improvements" in labor rights in Qatar over the past five years. But"a lack of effective implementation and enforcement" still persists, the group says.A Nepali migrant worker says he was misled about working conditions in QatarAnish Adhikari, now 26, worked construction jobs in Qatar for 33 months in the lead-up to the World Cup.
He also believes that potential workers did not get an accurate picture of what to expect."The recruitment company knows everything about the condition of migrant workers in Qatar. But they lie. They focus only focus on profits for themselves," Adhikari says."They sell a dream that's not reality."
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