November 15 – Hardly every week glided by within the build-up to the 2022 World Cup when Qatar wasn’t underneath examination for its coverage on human rights.
However two years after the match, the nation has acquired cautious backing from the United Nations’ prime human rights physique for enhancing the labour legal guidelines that have been the main target of a lot consideration.
The Gulf state this week had its five-yearly evaluate on the Human Rights Council in Geneva for the primary time for the reason that match, which got here underneath shut worldwide scrutiny over the involvement of hundreds oof migrant staff.
“We commend Qatar for its notable reforms in labour migrant laws,” the Netherlands delegation to the Council mentioned. “These are important, however simpler enforcement and implementations are wanted.”
The Council contains 47 Member States and different delegates agreed there was nonetheless a strategy to go.
Sierra Leone, as an illustration, mentioned Qatar ought to “think about abolishing all vestiges” of the labour legislation system often known as kafala, which binds migrant staff to a single employer.
Qatar additionally was requested to abolish the dying penalty by states together with Brazil, Eire, Italy and New Zealand, whereas Brazil, Mexico and Spain urged the nation to permit same-sex relationships.
Qatar’s delegation to the Council pointed to the nation rising from exterior the highest 100 to now rank No. 84 within the international index of press freedom. Prime-ranked Norway, nonetheless, mentioned Qatar ought to guarantee “civil society, human rights defenders and journalists can function freely with out concern of reprisals.”
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