As early as the construction stage, a survey by the Guardian found that within a few weeks, dozens of Nepali immigrant workers died, and thousands more are enduring horrifying labor abuse. This has raised serious questions about the preparations for Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup, which is treated equal to the modern slavery defined by the ILO .
According to documents obtained from the Nepal Embassy in Doha, at least 44 workers died between June and August alone. More than half of people die from heart attacks, heart failure or workplace accidents.
WEEK architecture proposed the “Qatar World Cup Memorial Hall”, a concept tower first envisioned in 2014, a constantly evolving tower that questioned the number of workers who died during the construction of the FIFA World Cup stadium in Qatar in 2022.
It is a tower composed of concrete modules, each representing a deceased worker. The more workers the higher the tower is built. The
project was originally envisioned as a 1.5 km high monument. However, the final height of the tower was determined based on the Guardian’s death toll reported in 2021. Between 2010 and 2020, at least 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan , Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka died in Qatar. The final height of the monument is 4.4 km.
The Guardian Statistics
Since Qatar was designated as the host of the 2022 World Cup at the end of 2010, no independent organization has been able to defend the rights of workers or count the death toll. The right to strike and the right to trade union do not exist. The only data available is data from the Qatari authorities.
Between 2010 and 2019, 15,021 foreigners died in Qatar, with varying age and occupation. But this number is not officially linked to the construction of World Cup venues. However, most of them are relatively young, healthy migrant workers who have passed the physical examination in their country of origin. When they arrived in Qatar, they suddenly died of "natural causes", cardiac arrest or breathing stops. For the health experts consulted by Amnesty International, this is not the cause of death. Heat stroke, dehydration or exhaustion have caused many middle-aged men to die suddenly after working for a long time in high temperatures. The scandal of
also questioned the responsibility of FIFA . It was not until 2017 that it announced an important human rights policy. But FIFA must find a legal way to make the host country respect human rights. Football is the most popular sport in the world, and the World Cup is the most united event.
The Qatar World Cup Memorial provides a memorial place for families from Nepal, India and other countries to stay away from Qatar cities and skyscrapers.
Memorial Tower will be constructed from 2.5 meters high modular concrete blocks , each representing a migrant worker who has been reportedly killed in Qatar since Qatar won the 2010 World Cup hosting rights. Four are placed on each floor to form an octagonal tower. Stairs will allow visitors to climb up the tower.
These stadiums are mainly built by migrant workers, and their conditions have always been the focus of many criticisms. In 2016, Amnesty International accused Qatar of using forced labor at the World Cup venue, and the organization recently reported that abuse is still happening "massively" in Qatar.
"We want to leave, but the company won't let us go." said a Nepali laborer employed in Lusail City development.
Lucerne City is a $45 billion city that is being built from scratch, including a stadium that will host the World Cup finals, which can accommodate 90,000 people. “I’m angry at the way this company treats us, but there’s nothing we can do.I regret coming here, but what should I do? We were forced to come here just to make a living, but we never had the luck. ”Kafala in Qatar The system allows employers to control everything from workers' accommodation to passport use.
Conclusion
Review of the grand carnival in the past. When the pages of history turn to the inconspicuous "A ride on the red dust and the concubine smiles", descendants only saw the lychees in Lingnan and the love of the king, and did not see the exhausted horses and humble officials behind the poem. The beauty is so beautiful. With a smile, how many unknown people work hard for those cans of lychees? The stadium cheers, how many immigrant workers have fallen in the hot working environment? People remember those dazzling moments and magnificent scenes, and should these little people as dust be buried in the desert sand of time and then forgotten?
time and seconds come and go in a hurry. If you don’t remember and be vigilant, indifference will only make the tragedy continue to spread. Friends, don’t ask about the despair Who is the bell ringing for?
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