Building a Better World Cup: Protecting Migrant Workers in Qatar Ahead of FIFA 2022

Building a Better World Cup, released in June 2012, documents pervasive employer exploitation and abuse of workers in Qatar’s construction industry, made possible by an inadequate legal and regulatory framework that grants employers extensive control over workers and prohibits migrant workers from exercising their rights to free association and collective bargaining. It also addresses the government’s failure to enforce those laws that at least on paper are designed to protect worker rights. It examines why violations of workers’ rights go largely undetected, and looks at the barriers that workers face in reporting complaints or seeking redress.

Building a Better World Cup | Human Rights Watch