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Government inspectors listed "widespread" abuses, including the illegal confiscation of workers' passports, "deceptive hiring practices," "excessive recruiting fees," and "substandard worker living conditions".
A 2015 investigation into FIFA raised concerns about corruption in Qatar's bid, and human-rights groups have continued to report numerous workers'-rights violations in Qatar, including squalid living conditions and the confiscation of workers' passports.
Originally intended as a major tourist attraction and beacon of Abu Dhabi's cultural power, Saadiyat has instead drawn unwelcome fresh attention to that pattern of abuse, with reports of the routine confiscation of workers' passports upon arrival in the country and claims that a code of practice governing the treatment of workers has been repeatedly breached.
These include banning the confiscation of workers' passports and ensuring timely payment of wages.
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The article documented that these conditions included confiscation of worker passports, forced overtime, recruitment fees and cockroach-filled dorms where workers had to sleep under beds.
This system, along with often exorbitant fees paid to recruitment agents, encourages an unfortunate interpretation of kafala as a form of "ownership", most sinisterly illustrated by the confiscation of the workers' passports.
Page A8 NEW YEAR RIOT IN CHINA Unrest and riots in China are frequently caused by discontent over government corruption, confiscation of land or workers being denied fair wages.
The non-payment of wages, confiscation of documents and inability of workers to leave their employer constitute forced labour under UN rules.
The obligation to repay these debts, combined with the non-payment of wages, confiscation of documents and inability of workers to leave their place of work, constitute forced labour, a form of modern-day slavery estimated to affect up to 21 million people across the globe.
These included official interference in relief efforts, harassment and intimidation of private relief workers, misappropriation and confiscation of aid, controls on information, confiscation of land from survivors, and forced labor.
The alleged abuses include erratic or reduced payment of wages, passport confiscation, workers entering employment with high levels of debt bondage, and pay levels below those agreed when workers were recruited in their home countries.
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