According to ABC News, the corruption scandal engulfing world football’s governing body FIFA has cast a renewed spotlight on the conditions endured by hundreds of thousands of workers laboring on stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Qatar — the world’s richest country per capita — is spending $260 billion building the stadiums, public transport systems, freeways, hotels and apartments to stage the tournament.
Yet foreign workers, mostly from South Asia, are being paid as little as $50 a week as the labor to build the infrastructure.
Forced to live in squalid and unsanitary conditions, they work under a controversial system called kafala, which requires them to surrender their passports to their employers.
With the recent resignation of FIFA President Sepp Blatter amidst a widely publicized corruption scandal, a cloud of uncertainty could come to cover World Cup construction projects.
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