Human rights organisations have condemned the decision to award the 2019 World Athletics Championships to Doha and warned that the IAAF has “given its seal of approval to Qatar’s callous indifference” to workers’ rights...

Nicholas McGeehan, Middle East researcher for Human Rights Watch, told the Guardian: “The IAAF must surely have known that Qatar’s labour system remains deeply exploitative when it took its decision, so this raises the question as to how important it considers the lives and welfare of the migrant workers on whom the 2019 world championships will depend.