#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #teaparty Human Rights Investigators Vanish, as FIFA Forges Ahead on 2022 World Cup http://www.ituc-csi.org/qatar-investigadores-sobre TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH BY GOOGLE CHROME TRANSLATOR The ITUC has expressed its deep concern for the safety and welfare of two researchers on human rights, and Krishna Ghimire Gundev Upadhyaya in Qatar. The two Britons had been under surveillance and harassed by security agents while documenting Qataris extreme violations of workers' rights in the Gulf state. They disappeared as they prepared to leave their hotel to the airport in Doha to leave the country on August 31. Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the ITUC, said "Qatar seems to believe that creating a climate of fear and intimidation that will get the world's eyes shift their gaze from the economy that keeps modern slavery. Trabadores Hundreds of migrants, many of them women, languishing in detention centers in Doha just for trying to escape abusive employers and violent. Foreign journalists have been arrested for trying to report on the situation, and state repression merely increase in a country that has already shown a total lack of respect for basic human rights and legal standards. " The Norwegian NGO gnrd, which employed the two missing researchers, has expressed "deep concern that these employees, both British citizens may have been victims of enforced disappearance and who are at risk of being tortured." Meanwhile, FIFA is pressing ahead with preparations for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and had meetings scheduled for Sept. 8 to decide whether the event will take place in summer or winter. "FIFA seems to have forgotten the suffering of hundreds of thousands of migrants working in the construction of the infrastructure for the World Cup, where at least one worker dies every day. Even cosmetic changes to the system easement Kafalah have been postponed for at least 18 months as the local Chamber of Commerce decides whether to allow these so-called reforms come to see the light. FIFA should repeat the vote to decide who will host the World Cup in 2022, rather than to play along to the sponsoring companies and multinational construction firms at the expense of workers and some of the most exploited workers in the world, "said Burrow . For more information, Please contact the ITUC Press Department on: +32 2 224 February 04 or +32 476 621 018