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This briefing updates Reality Check 2021: A Year to the 2022 World Cup,8 which in turns built on Amnesty International’s previous yearly reports assessing the state of migrant workers’ rights in Qatar in the lead up to the 2022 World Cup. This briefing draws on the extensive body of research Amnesty International has developed on migrant workers’ rights in Qatar over the past decade, as well as new research conducted in 2022, and the work of other organizations and journalists. Amnesty International delegates visited Qatar in July and October 2022. For this briefing, they spoke in person and remotely to current and former migrant workers, embassy representatives of origin countries, migrants’ rights organizations, leaders of migrant worker communities in Qatar, and the ILO. Delegates also engaged in correspondence and meetings with Qatari government officials, including the Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Interior and the Government Communications Office (GCO), as well as the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, and FIFA. Amnesty International’s researchers requested access to Qatar’s immigration detention centre, ‘Search and Follow Up’ facilities and the Human Care Centre shelter but did not receive any response from the authorities. Amnesty International also analysed national and international laws and standards pertaining to migrant workers’ rights, and annual ILO reports on Qatar’s progress on the commitments made in its joint technical cooperation agreement. In this report, pseudonyms have been used for all workers whose cases are mentioned to protect them from possible reprisals.

8 Amnesty International, Reality Check 2021: A year to the 2022 World Cup – The state of migrant worker’s Rights in Qatar (Index: MDE 22/4966/2021), 16 November 2021, https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde22/4966/2021/en/

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