Human rights activists are outraged that Qatar, which caused 7,000 migrant workers to die laboring for the FIFA World Cup, was just elected to head the ILO’s annual International Labor Conference. “It’s a travesty of justice that Qatar won this top ILO post after a years-long influence campaign, recently exposed by the New York Times, to silence the UN’s labor rights agency about its abuse of migrant workers,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, an independent non-governmental human rights group based in Geneva. “The presidency of the labor rights conference was won by Qatar labor minister Ali bin Samikh Al Marri — even though his name appears in the ‘Qatargate’ scandal in which EU lawmakers allegedly took huge bribes to praise Qatar and downplay its labor rights abuses ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup,” said Neuer. BREAKING: Qatar, which caused 7,000 migrant workers to die laboring for the FIFA World Cup, was elected to head the @ILO's International Labor Conference. Right after the New York Times exposed Qatar's $25 million influence campaign to silence the ILO on its abuse of workers.

Source: International New York Times June 07, 2023 22:38 UTC