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New report highlights labour rights abuses at Dubai’s Expo 2020

Workers said they were targets of discrimination, describing how their race dictated their treatment and duties on site, according to the report [File: Jon Gambrell/AP Photo]

The legions of workers who built Dubai’s extravagant Expo 2020 site and keep it running face exploitation, grim conditions and a wide range of labour abuses, according to a new report by a London-based labour rights group.

The report, released on Wednesday by consultancy Equidem, also said that the United Arab Emirates government had failed to demonstrate that its commitments to worker welfare at the multibillion-dollar Expo had corrected, let alone identified, rights violations.

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