http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/qatars-workers-cant-attend-family-funerals-in-nepal-10230805.html

Tens of thousands of workers on the 2022 football World Cup in Qatar cannot get home to see their families and attend funerals in the wake of last month’s Nepal earthquake.

Qatar’s strict worker rules, known as kafala, mean that many of the 400,000 Nepalese workers in the country have their passports taken by employers and find it difficult to get permission to go home.

The international campaign group Avaaz has written to Qatari authorities demanding compassionate leave for workers with families affected by the earthquake; it has yet to receive a response.

Sam Barratt, Avaaz’s campaign director, said: “We’re calling for these workers to be granted amnesty to go home. They are working on World Cup related infrastructure projects. Qatar was built with Nepal’s cheap labour; the least they can do is allow them to go home and grieve.”

A Nepalese worker in Doha, who asked not to be named, said that his wife and children were now homeless: “My family lives in a village outside Kathmandu. Since the quake I have not been able to contact them… Two of my relatives in Kathmandu have died in the quake. My wife and two little children are sleeping on the road. I am desperate to go back… but I can’t leave because my employer won’t let me go. I can’t leave the job because I have to pay back the loan I had taken to get to Qatar.”

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Its disgusting. Can FIFA just acknowledge some human rights?

Because all they care about is money.
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"Please do not use abusive language about a country. We have members from Qatar."

And FIFA will sponsor this World Cup. It is horrible. I hope this is a wake up call and FIFA changes its direction. Only the media sharing these kinds of story will cause change. Its not the first bad thing we have heard from Qatar.

The World Cup in Qatar is the biggest disgrace to football in the 21st century... probably in the history of professional football as well. Absolutely disgusting.

It is the biggest disgrace in ALL FREAKIN LEVELs.

So disgusting

Dont hate Qatar just hate FIFA or Blatter...

Yeah yeah It's a disgrace from Qatar etc etc... none of you know anything, haven't read about it and just throw shit on Qatar.
I'm not even going to bother teaching you about how these workers are in such shitty positions but I will tell you this.
Nepal is as faulty if not more faulty than Qatar. You see that worker mentioning a loan? That's illegal by Qatar laws, but he probably took a loan from a bank and paid preemptively so now he owns a loan to the bank. The loan is not to his employer in Qatar, but to a Nepally agency which facilitated his move to Qatar. Their own countries are putting them in shit positions, but that's not to say Qatar is doing them favors either. When a Western company does something similar, it's just capitalism but when Qatar does this it's disgusting and a disgrace.
Qatar treats workers like utter shit, but so do their own countries.
Also, there are plenty of charities going on for Nepal in Qatar right now. Qatar is one of the most charitable countries around the world but it's just overlooked.

Disguisting.

Zakzook, it may be both countries fault but these companies employed to build for FIFA World Cup is treating them like slaves. They are retaining their passports and forcing them to work and thats pretty much what mobsters do to eastern women when they treat them as sex slaves. If a worker wants to leave for whatever reason, he should be able to. Especially after a tragedy.

Qatar never desrved the world cup and this is just another example of why.

^ They are able to leave after 5 years ( no matter the Kafeel). They sign to this.

@Zakzook

I have met people who have lived in the UAE and Saudi for many years, and they confirmed to me that the news about Qatari slaves is completely true. The 'slaves' have their passports confiscated, and aren't allowed to see their families ever again without their 'owner's' consent.

They signed in for that??? You gotta be kidding right?... Did they discuss like: ... ok if there is an earthquake then kiss goodbye to your family's visiting chance cuz you are locked here bro... WTH, that's completely not moral...

Qatar only care about their own agenda and the spread of sunni islam. One of the most charitable countries in the world? Utter bull-shit. Or do you mean the state funded and privately funded by billionaires aid to jihadist organizations such as daesh and al-nusra? Then maybe so. Sweden gives more than 20 times as much in foreign aid per capita as Qatar, so get your facts straight. Furthermore, it's well-known under what terrible working conditions the foreign workers have to endure in Qatar. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/14/qatar-admits-deaths-in-migrant-workers

Today (12.5) there's another
Nepal earthquake with magnitude 7.3

@KTB +1

UAE != Qatar, How the hell would they know? You heard from someone living in ANOTHER COUNTRY about the situation here and thus it is fact, please dynast.

Qatar gives Daesh money, now I've heard everything.... Go away people, stop talking about middle eastern politics.