5. RIGHT TO REMEDY: QATAR’S OBLIGATIONS
As a party to various international treaties prohibiting forced labour and other human rights abuses, including International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions 29, 117 105 118 and 189; 119 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); 120 International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR); 121 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; 122 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; 123 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; 124 and the Arab Charter on Human Rights, 125 Qatar is obliged to protect all workers from being exploited in its territory. In ratifying the ICESCR, Qatar has promised to guarantee the right to work to all in the country, including “the right of everyone to the opportunity to gain his living by work which he freely chooses or accepts, and will take appropriate steps to safeguard this right” 126 and to “recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of just and favourable conditions of work”, including remuneration, rest time, paid leave, limited working hours and decent living conditions for workers. 127 It is also obliged to provide remedies when these rights are violated. 128
ILO C029 - Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_ILO_CODE:C029 118 ILO C105 - Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105), https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=1000:12100:0::NO::P12100_ILO_CODE:C105 119 ILO C189 - Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189), https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_ILO_CODE:C189 120 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 16 December 1966, https://www.ohchr.org/en/instrumentsmechanisms/instruments/international-covenant-civil-and-political-rights 121 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 16 December 1966, https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/international-covenant-economic-social-and-culturalrights 122 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 21 December 1965, https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/international-convention-elimination-all-forms-racial 123 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 18 December 1979, https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-elimination-all-forms-discriminationagainstwomen#:~:text=On%2018%20December%201979%2C%20the,twentieth%20country%20had%20ratified%20it 124 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 10 December 1984, https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-against-torture-and-other-cruel-inhumanor-degrading 125 Arab Charter on Human Rights (2004), https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/551368?ln=en 126 Article 6 of the ICESCR. 127 Article 7 of the ICESCR, and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), General Comment No. 23 (2016) on the right to just and favourable conditions of work, UN Doc. E/C.12/GC/23, 10, p. 4. 128Article 2 of the ICESCR, and the CESCR, General Comment No. 3 on the nature of States parties' obligations (article 2, para. 1), UN Doc. E/1991/23 para 5; and the CESCR, General Comment 9 on the domestic application of the Covenant, UN Doc. E/C.12/1998/24. 117
PREDICTABLE AND PREVENTABLE WHY FIFA AND QATAR SHOULD REMEDY THE 2022 WORLD CUP ABUSES Amnesty International
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