"As games draw to a close, plight of migrant workers has cast a shadow over World Cup", 18 Dec 2022

Boniface Barasa worked for three years as a construction worker in Qatar ... [where he] says he witnessed a co-worker die after collapsing from the extreme heat ... He suspects that person could have been dehydrated because of limited water breaks offered to workers...

He added: “I saw the supervisor call another Kenyan a lazy Black monkey ... then the supervisor slapped him.”

....Complaints from workers currently in Qatar continue, according to a campaigner for migrants’ rights based in Kenya ... [with complaints ranging from] withheld wages to physical assault.

Equidem [a human rights and labour rights organisation] is investigating claims of mistreatment by current and former migrant workers across the Gulf but in a report last month focused on Qatar, Equidem revealed widespread violations including forced labor, unpaid wages, nationality-based discrimination, and systemic abuse in interviews with 60 migrant workers employed at the World Cup stadiums.