A red card to Qatar for the non-respect of human rights and the exploitation of migrant workers. Be they the workers engaged in the construction sites of the stadiums built for the World Cup, a "historic and controversial" event that will start on 20 November, or domestic helpers.
in the last 10 years, since the assignment of the planet's top football competition, about 6,500 immigrants from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have died in Qatar. With less than a month to go before the start, the German Church, through the NGO Missio, launched the campaign involving Filipina Sister Mary John Mananzan, a Benedictine who has been involved in many battles at home and abroad in the past. The nun waves the red card at Doha, a symbol of a policy of exploitation to achieve goals, which is also shared by several petro-monarchies and emirates of the Gulf.
However, situations of exploitation bordering on slavery do not only concern World Cup workers, but also many foreign domestic workers employed by the families of wealthy Qatari citizens. And it is on them that the campaign intends to shine the spotlight, collecting stories and testimonies of people forced to work up to 15 or 20 hours a day, often for seven days a week, for only 230 euro.