Seattle Sports

Shows

Team News

Columns

Seattle Sports

Rights group: Labor abuses widespread at World Cup stadiums

FILE - A migrant laborer paints The Pearl Monument, a sculpture depicting an open oyster shell with running water, on the corniche, overlooking the skyline of Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. Migrant laborers who built Qatar's World Cup stadiums often worked long hours under harsh conditions and were subjected to discrimination, wage theft and other abuses as their employers evaded accountability, a rights group said in a report released Thursday. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Rights group: Labor abuses widespread at World Cup stadiums