If Qatar had not had enough bad press in relation to its hosting of the 2022 World Cup, more pressure was piled on this week following revelations about the way in which migrant workers are treated in the country.
The Guardian reported how labourers from Nepal have been dying from heart failure due to the harsh working conditions and exploitation. There have also been numerous instances of workers having their passports confiscated and salaries withheld.
With construction projects, roads and new stadiums set to be build ahead of the World Cup, the demands on labourers will only increase exponentially, causing major worry about the plight of migrant workers who make up 90 per cent of Qatar's workforce.
But how was the story broken and what is FIFA's role in this situation?
Last night Joe Molloy spoke to journalist Pete Pattison of The Guardian, the man who broke the story.
First of all, he described the harrowing scenes he saw whilst in Qatar.
"Let me set the scene, walking into a migrant labour camp where thousands of migrant workers live. There are 12 to 14 in a room, sleeping on bunk beds. There are toilets with sewage flowing out of it and kitchens used by 600 men. Truly depressing living conditions.
"Then I go to the Nepali embassy and behind the Nepali embassy I find over 30 workers sheltering in a tiny little room because their employer has essentially abandoned them and not paid many of them for months. Then in an even smaller, run-down shanty town where workers are living 12 to a room in a space that is no bigger than 3 x 4 metres. These workers are often cheated. They are promised a contract in their home in Nepal, only to find it is different when they come here. They take out huge loans to get to Qatar and they cannot leave because they have to pay it back."
Pattison also revealed that Nepalese suffer most in Qatar because there is a hierarchy among the migrant population with the Nepalese who dominate the construction industry firmly at the bottom.
"They are dying in record numbers. In two months over the summer at least 44 Nepalese workers died. Just the Nepalese workers. The curious thing is the main cause of the death is heart failure. Now these are generally young men. They shouldn't be dying of heart failure. But it's almost as if they are being literally worked to death."
But who will take responsibility for the situation? Pattison believes the large companies running the construction projects and building sites should change their modus operandi. However he also points out that such practices which border on modern slavery are still common across the Arabian Gulf.
"I don't see any reason why the lead companies on a site cannot take responsibility for their entire supply chain right down to every single worker. There is no excuse why large companies cannot find out about their workers and rectify the problem."
But how about FIFA who made the very questionable decision to hand the World Cup to Qatar?
"Let's see the action. The rhetoric that comes out of FIFA and the Qatari authorities is all very well, but it doesn't mean much to the workers on the ground.
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