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• Regularly collect and make public data on the number and kinds of occupational injuries and accidents on worksites; • Hire reputable independent monitors to monitor conditions of all workers employed by contractors and subcontractors on company projects. Publish annual independent monitoring reports that include remedial measures taken or planned. Remedial measures should include not only restitution but damage payments to workers to discourage future violations; • Publicly pledge to respect workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining. Ban employer interference in union activity and conduct designed to impede or prevent non-citizens from exercising their right to organize; • In light of Qatari law that prohibits non-citizens from striking, establish conciliation and mediation procedures that lead, in the event of deadlock, to binding arbitration with sufficient guarantees of impartiality and rapidity to resolve labor conflicts, as recommended by the ILO Committee of Experts. Pledge not to cancel the work visas of workers who strike. 93 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | JUNE 2012
Acknowledgements This report was researched and written by Priyanka Motaparthy, a former researcher with the Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch and current researcher with its Children’s Rights Division, with assistance from David Segall, an associate in the Middle East and North Africa Division. Nisha Varia, senior researcher in the Women’s Rights Division, interviewed Nasser al-Hemedi, acting Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, in Geneva. Sarah Leah Whitson, director of the Middle East and North Africa Division, edited the report. Lisa Misol, senior researcher in the Business and Human Rights division, and Nisha Varia, senior researcher in the Women’s Rights division, provided specialist review. Clive Baldwin, senior legal advisor, conducted legal review, and Tom Porteous, deputy program director, provided program review. David Segall, associate in the Middle East and North Africa Division, provided editing and production assistance. Grace Choi and Fitzroy Hepkins also provided production assistance for this report. Fatima Benfkira, Maximilian J. Ubinas, and Ayla Qadeer, former interns in the Middle East and North Africa Division, provided valuable research assistance. We would like to thank Ben Silverstone of Doughty Street Chambers in London, Alison Tate and Paul Ames of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Andrew Gardner of the University of Puget Sound, and Elizabeth Frantz for their assistance. We thank Hala al- Ali and other employees of the Qatar National Human Rights Committee for providing valuable information and assistance in Qatar. We are grateful to Mohammad Hassan al- Obeidly, Manager of the Legal Affairs Department; Salih Saeed al-Shawi, Manager of the Labor Relations Department; and Nasser al-Mannai, Director of the Recruitment Department at Qatar’s Labor Ministry for meeting us in Doha, and for their detailed responses to our queries. Finally, we thank the many worker advocates from expatriate communities in Qatar who provided research assistance for this report, but preferred to remain anonymous for their own protection. BUILDING A BETTER WORLD CUP 94
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