Migrant workers were still paying exorbitant and illegal recruitment fees in the year before the World Cup, Human Rights Watch has found, criticising both Fifa and Qatar for not yet committing to a remedy fund.
The body has warned that, without action, “the real legacy of this tournament will be how Fifa, Qatar, and anyone profiting from this World Cup left families of thousands of migrant workers indebted after they died and left many migrant workers who had their wages stolen uncompensated”.
