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meanwhile, modern slavery: "Without changes to working practices, more workers will die building the infrastructure in the runup to the World Cup than players will take to the field, the ITUC has warned." http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/sep/26/qatar-world-cup-migrant-workers-dead #shocking
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"annual #death toll among those working on building sites could rise to 600 a year - almost a dozen a week - unless the Doha government makes urgent reforms" "estimate on current #mortality figures for #Nepalese and #Indian workers who form the bulk of #Qatar's 1.2 million-strong migrant workforce" "#autopsies often not being conducted and routine attribution to #heart failure - it believes harsh and dangerous conditions at work and cramped and squalid living quarters are to blame" cc @question
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