Slavery’s Shadow on Qatar’s World Cup
When soccer fans travel to Qatar for the World Cup, the airport they arrive in, the roads they travel on, the hotels where they stay and the game stadiums will all have been made with the help of slave labor. Journalist Pete Pattison has been investigating this system of forced labor over the past six years for The Guardian, and his talk examines the forces trapping so many migrant workers in bondage.
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