By James M. Dorsey
Qatar, caught in a Catch-22 between a requirement to quickly reform its labour system in a bid to convince human rights and trade union activists that it is serious and the need domestically to proceed slowly, risks losing goodwill it has built in recent years that could further fuel demands to deprive the Gulf state of its 2022 World Cup hosting rights.
A just published Amnesty International report entitled 'No Extra Time: How Qatar Is Still Failing on Workers' Rights Ahead of the World Cup' signals that activists' patience with Qatar's failure to act on promises to reform the living and working conditions of foreign workers, who constitute a majority of the Gulf states' population, is running out.
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