Report: Thousands of deaths in Qatar related to World Cup construction 

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A new report from The Guardian newspaper in the UK says that more than 6,500 construction workers died working in Qatar following the country winning the right to host the World Cup. The World’s Marco Werman spoke with May Romanos, a lawyer and a Gulf researcher at Amnesty International, about the labor and human rights violation in Qatar and the wider Gulf.

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