Amnesty International claims in a 166-page report released on Sunday that workers arriving in Qatar to work on construction projects related to the tournament in nine years' time are subjected to "non-payment of wages, harsh and dangerous working conditions, and shocking standards of accommodation".
And yet, the shocking standards were allowed to continue for years.
In November, Amnesty published a report on Qatar's construction sector that documented a range of abuses against migrant workers, including "non-payment of wages, harsh and dangerous working conditions, and shocking standards of accommodation".
When my parents came to visit, I hoped they wouldn't notice the boys aimlessly rocking from side to side and the shocking standards of hygiene demonstrated by some of my new classmates.
"It set a shocking new standard for deceit at the time," Mr. Taubman observes, "and left many Americans wondering whether they could trust their leaders".
During a visit to the West Midlands, Mr Farage accused the Conservative Party of being guilty of "shocking double standards" over defence and foreign aid.
Mr Sarkozy pledged to dismantle some 300 of these camps, which he said were "sources of illegal trafficking, of profoundly shocking living standards, of exploitation of children for begging, of prostitution and crime".
A statement from the president's office said the camps were "sources of illegal trafficking, of profoundly shocking living standards, of exploitation of children for begging, of prostitution and crime".
His story about what had happened to him in the intervening three years was truly shocking by any standard.
Media captionThe BBC's Nick Robinson described the leak as "shocking" The Evening Standard has apologised after it published details of the Budget via Twitter before George Osborne had delivered his statement.
