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  • Qatari Labor Reforms: Words But No Actions

    QATAR, 2015/12/02 Words but no actions. That is Amnesty International’s evaluation of promised Qatari labor reforms on the fifth year of the awarding of the 2022 World Cup hosting rights to the Gulf national. Qatar’s failure to enact wide-ranging reforms heightens the risk of its hosting rights being called into question against a backdrop of legal investigations into the integrity of its bid and world soccer body FIFA presidential elections that could spur increased pressure on the Gulf national in FIFA’s bid to put a massive corruption scandal that involves Qatar behind it. In a statement, Amnesty researcher Mustafa Qadri, asserted that “too little has been done to address rampant migrant labour abuse. Qatar’s persistent labour reform delays are a recipe for human rights disaster… Unless action is taken – and any minute at this time – again each football fan who visits Qatar in 2022 should ask themselves how they can be sure they are not benefiting from the blood, sweat and tears of migrant workers.”

  • Arab Youth Survey Report 2015

    BAHRAIN, 2015/04/25 Confidence part Arab youth that the Arab Spring would bring positive change across the region is declining and as a result they are uncertain whether democracy could ever work in the Middle East. This is the headline finding of the 7th Annual ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey released today. - Arab youth see the rise of ISIS as the biggest obstacle facing the region - Youth are keen to start their own business as concerns about unemployment continue - The UAE remains the majority popular country to live in and emulate and Saudi Arabia is viewed as the region’s biggest ally - A lot of view the Arabic language as central to their identity but believe it is losing its price to English

  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.

  • Doha peace implementation progress in Darfur

    QATAR, 2014/02/27 A continued commitment to the implementation of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD), particularly the Final Security Arrangement, was the focus of the Third Conference of the DDPD Joint Commission Tuesday in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital. The Commission, one of two ceasefire monitoring and operational mechanisms provided for in the DDPD, is chaired by Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the Joint Appropriate Representative (JSR) of the African Union-United Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).

  • Qatar,Doha,Asian Games Complex,modern architecture

    QATAR, 2013/10/13  A recent investigation by the British daily The Guardian found that dozens of migrant laborers working on construction sites linked to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar have died over the completed few months. According to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), a lot of of the 1.2 million migrant workers in the emirate of Qatar face abuse and exploitation. Gulf nations have faced regular criticism in the completed over their rules on migrant workers, but the 2022 World Cup has presently put the international spotlight on the issue. In an interview, Nandita Baruah, an expert on labor migration at the Asia Foundation, explains that huge structural and systemic changes in the ways the Qatari government will be needed in order to protect these workers and improve their working and living conditions in the natural gas-rich national.
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