Exploited and struggling to survive in Qatar

Headline Title: Exploited and struggling to survive in Qatar 17 November 2013 “Everything was hopeless.” This is how Rahul* summed up his first stint as a migrant worker in Qatar when he recently spoke to Amnesty International. Stuck more than 2,000km from his native India, in a land where he couldn’t speak the language, he faced the worst predicament of his working life. A gleaming site with a dark back-storyAbout 50 minutes drive north of Doha, at the heart of Qatar's gas industry, lies the Ras Laffan Emergency and Safety College (RLESC) campus, which was formally inaugurated by…

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