NEW DELHI: “While I worked, I used to wish I could watch Messi play. I imagined he would hear us and make everyone listen to us. And it would ease our pain.”
These are words of Anish Adhikari, a Nepalese construction worker and one of the many including Indians whose voices figure in a new research from human rights organisation ‘Equidem’ that through its findings levels serious allegations of abuse and discrimination towards migrant workers by employer companies and failure by the Qatari government to enforce promised reform as FIFA World Cup 2022 draws closer.