Qatar, Dubai and Russia: construction industry must step up on human rights | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional

Qatar, Dubai and Russia: construction industry must step up on human rights | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional:



"This time last year, Pete Pattisson, a freelance journalist and filmmaker based in Nepal, began a daily journey to Katmandu airport. There he watched a steady stream of coffins arriving from across the Gulf, carrying the bodies of migrant workers back to their grieving families who couldn't understand how their young sons had left clutching job contracts and arrived back, some only months later, in body bags. 




Pattisson got on a plane to Qatar to try and find out what was happening to these men. The scale and severity of the abuses he found shocked him to the core.



"Any workers' camp I went to I found stories of non-payment of wages, appalling living and working conditions, huge debts and confiscation of passports, this was the story told by almost everyone I met. This was not the exception, this was the rule for how things were done in the Qatari construction industry," says Pattisson."



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