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The logo of the Saudi 2034 FIFA World Cup football tournament is displayed on a wall at the Ministry of Media in Riyadh on May 13, 2025. (Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)
May 14, 2025, 9:54 am
Watchdog warns of ‘gruesome’ migrant worker deaths in World Cup host Saudi Arabia
Human Rights Watch says scores of laborers dying as they build stadiums for 2034 soccer championship, including by ‘falling from buildings, electrocution, and even decapitation’
By GIUSEPPE CACACE
A view of a crane that collapsed in the sea near Ashkelon, March 14, 2023, killing Israel Electric Corporation employee Nir Dekel, 54. (Flash90)
August 8, 2024, 7:15 pm
NGO calls for legislation to protect outdoor laborers from effects of climate change
The Workers’ Hotline fears rising temperatures, extreme weather events, will compound risks already faced in farming, sanitation, building, gardening, infrastructure work
By Sue Surkes
FILE - Nasser al-Khater speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy in Doha, Qatar on Oct. 29, 2018 (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, file)
December 10, 2022, 3:02 pm
Qatar World Cup chief after migrant worker killed: ‘Death is a natural part of life’
Nasser Al Khater says it is ‘strange’ that journalists want to discuss death of Filipino man; Human Rights Watch: Shows ‘callous disregard’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Migrant workers cheer at a fan festival at the Asian Town cricket stadium in Doha, Qatar, November 25, 2022. (AP/Jon Gambrell)
November 26, 2022, 11:36 pm
Priced out of World Cup, Qatar’s migrant workers watch fruits of labor from afar
South Asian laborers pack into cricket pitch on outskirts of Doha to watch tournament they helped build on giant TV screen
By Isabel Debre
Illustrative: Demonstrators take part in a protest against prostitution outside the Gogo strip club in Tel Aviv on December 22, 2016. (Flash90)
July 2, 2021, 2:32 pm
Israel downgraded in State Department human trafficking report
US criticizes Jewish state for fewer investigations and prosecutions in trafficking cases in 2020 compared to 2019
By Amy Spiro
An image from 'White Eye,' the award-winning, 20-minute short film by Tomer Shushan (Courtesy White Eye)
April 23, 2020, 11:23 am
Award-winning 20-minute film peers at privilege in Tel Aviv
Tomer Shushan nabs the SXSW Grand Jury Award for his one-take short ‘White Eye,’ which explores the plight of migrant workers in Israel through the eyes of a bike owner
By Jessica Steinberg
Leah Hecht and other volunteers assembling and delivering food packages in south Tel Aviv, April 3, 2020 (Courtesy ARDC)
April 11, 2020, 12:23 pm
For African migrants in Israel, COVID-19 means health, jobs, homes all at risk
Many have lost their jobs; others, who haven’t, fear infection. Guidelines aren’t clear; health care is out of reach. For a community already in limbo, everything just got worse
By Joy Bernard
Illustrative -- Qatari school children wave their national flag and pendants of other Asian Cup soccer tournament teams in Doha, Qatar, Jan. 3, 2011 (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
December 16, 2019, 2:53 pm
Qatar should ease school fees for migrant children, UN expert says
Most of the country’s 2.75 million residents, 90% of whom are foreigners, are from developing countries working on projects linked to the 2022 World Cup
By AFP
Benjamin Lau
January 26, 2018, 3:45 pm
Benjamin Lau
307 kids have nowhere to go
These are children who lost their families to war, ethnic cleansing and murder; how can we ignore them?
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during an Israel Beytenu faction meeting at the Knesset on June 6, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 14, 2016, 11:04 am
Defense minister ordered end to soldiers helping migrant kids
Liberman reportedly told IDF chief of staff that servicemembers should volunteer with ‘Holocaust survivors or the needy’ instead
By Raoul Wootliff
In this Saturday, May 7, 2016 photo, Eritrean Christian Orthodox migrants attend a mass at a makeshift church in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
May 19, 2016, 10:39 pm
Eritrean migrants find escape in Tel Aviv church
Makeshift center of worship provides spiritual relief to hundreds of migrants facing hardship in Israel
By Oded Balilty
Illustrative photo of Border Police on Jaffa Road, near Jerusalem's Old City, October 23, 2014 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
January 19, 2016, 7:12 pm
Cops, soldier jailed for robbing foreign workers at gunpoint
3 convicted of handcuffing Chinese, Eritrean construction workers and taking thousands of shekels, cellphones
By ToI Staff
Sydney Taylor
August 5, 2015, 1:36 pm
Sydney Taylor
Our turn to care for caregivers
The migrant workers who serve our sick, elderly and disabled are themselves exploited and denied rights
A Visa anti-logo created by an artist to draw attention to human rights abuses in Qatar to prepare for the 2022 World Cup. (Screen capture: Boredpanda/Reddit)
May 31, 2015, 6:40 am
Anti-logos shame FIFA sponsors
Amid corruption scandal, logos of famous brands photoshopped to imply they condone human rights violations
By ToI Staff and AFP
Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz. (photo credit: FLASH90)
April 21, 2015, 3:42 am
Minister: Migrants’ deaths show why fence is necessary
While lamenting drowning of 700 people, Yisrael Katz also praises government’s actions to stop influx via Egypt
By JTA
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