{"id":51297,"date":"2022-12-20T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T11:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/dec\/20\/dark-days-in-qatar-nepali-workers-face-bitter-legacy-of-world-cup-debts"},"modified":"2022-12-20T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T11:26:07","slug":"dark-days-in-qatar-nepali-workers-face-bitter-legacy-of-world-cup-debts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51297","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dark days in Qatar\u2019: Nepali workers face bitter legacy of World Cup debts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For thousands of low-paid workers, this year\u2019s games brought back only memories of abuse and exploitation<\/p>\n<p>On a huge billboard in front of Kathmandu\u2019s international airport, is a picture of five migrant workers with the words: \u201cMeet the hardest working team in Qatar. Wouldn\u2019t it be great if they were compensated for it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just metres away, hundreds of young men board flights to Qatar and other Gulf states every day, hoping to earn enough to look after the families they leave behind. About 400,000 Nepalis work in Qatar and many toiled for years on its preparations for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/dec\/20\/dark-days-in-qatar-nepali-workers-face-bitter-legacy-of-world-cup-debts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For thousands of low-paid workers, this year\u2019s games brought back only memories of abuse and exploitationOn a huge billboard in front of Kathmandu\u2019s international airport, is a picture of five migrant workers with the words: \u201cMeet the hardest working t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[627,59,212,241,524,61,203,2428,2430,2429,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-global-development","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-nepal","category-qatar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-workers-rights","category-world-cup","category-world-cup-2022","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51298,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51297\/revisions\/51298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}