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To: FC Barcelona
Tell FC Barcelona not to take Qatar Airways as their sponsor and have them #swaptheshirt
Force FC Barcelona to #swaptheshirt and not support a nation that has such terrible human rights abuses by wearing the Qatar Airways logo.
Why is this important?
About 2.2 million people live in Qatar, about 1.4 million people are migrant workers, most of them are from South Asian countries. The biggest expat group are Indians whose numbers are about 500,000. There are about 400,000 people from Nepal working in the country. They are all subject to the Kafala system, which is widely acknowledged as a form of modern slavery.
In March 2016 Amnesty International reported that some 132 workers building the Khalifa Stadium and The Aspire Zone are being actively exploited. They also report that at least 1,200 workers from India and Nepal alone have died in Qatar since 2010, based on figures released by the local embassies of both countries.
Laborer Jaleshwar Prasad, 48, fell unconscious in May 2016 while performing steel work at Al Bayt stadium. Prasad is the third Indian employed on a World Cup site to die of a heart attack in the last six months. Qatar’s Supreme Committee says there have been no work-related fatalities on World Cup sites, but law firm DLA Piper, in a review for the government in 2013, found evidence of dozens of work-related deaths across Qatar among migrant labourers from South Asia.
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In March 2016 Amnesty International reported that some 132 workers building the Khalifa Stadium and The Aspire Zone are being actively exploited. They also report that at least 1,200 workers from India and Nepal alone have died in Qatar since 2010, based on figures released by the local embassies of both countries.
Laborer Jaleshwar Prasad, 48, fell unconscious in May 2016 while performing steel work at Al Bayt stadium. Prasad is the third Indian employed on a World Cup site to die of a heart attack in the last six months. Qatar’s Supreme Committee says there have been no work-related fatalities on World Cup sites, but law firm DLA Piper, in a review for the government in 2013, found evidence of dozens of work-related deaths across Qatar among migrant labourers from South Asia.
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