THE NEW FORM OF SLAVERY IN THE 21ST CENTURY–THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES GIVING THEIR MIGRANT WORKERS AWAY AS SLAVES TO MUSLIM COUNTRIES WHO DON’T WHAT TO DO THE MENIAL LABOR–AS THEIR PASSPORT GET CONFISCATED AND WORK NEVER CEASES UNTIL THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE SAYS SO–CONSIDER NEPALEAS WHO LIVE IN SQUALOR IN MODERN DAY QATAR AND ARE NOT ALLOWED TO GO HOME TO EVEN BURY THEIR RELATIVES WHERE AUTHORITARIAN REIGNS TO CONTROL THEM AS CONTRUCTION WORKER BEES

A DOZEN people are crammed into a tiny, squalid room. Their meals are cooked near open pit toilets. It is a scene reminiscent of a third world slum. But this is not the third world.

A short walk from the glitzy, Manhattan-style city of Doha in one of the richest countries in the world, are the filthy living quarters home to hundreds of thousands of migrant workers.

Qatar wants the world to see the shiny new stadiums being erected around the giant city under construction. But this is what they don’t want you to see.

Journalist Eric Campbell visited the gulf state to see for himself what the $260 billion 2022 World Cup preparations look like. His report airs on the ABC’s Foreign Correspondent program tonight at 8pm. It could turn you off “the world game” for good.

‘THIS IS MODERN DAY SLAVERY’

Qatar has a higher standard of living than Australia. But try telling that to the migrant workers in camps outside the city limits.

Mr Campbell told news.com.au his visit was eye-opening and tense and that he saw things that were inhumane.

“When you go into these dorm suburbs there is no sewage, no paved roads, no basic infrastructure. There’s an incredible glitzy city there but workers are living in Dickensian conditions in slums outside the city”.

The death toll for workers constructing hotels, convention centres, freeways and stadiums to cater to the football-loving public in seven years time fluctuates, mainly because only two countries — India and Nepal — keep official records.

Both countries have lost 200 workers each and reports suggest as many as 4000 workers could die before kick off in 2022.

Is it worth it? Well, workers are paid $50 a week to slave away in 50 degree heat for more than 12 hours a day without overtime. When they finish, they share their room with 11 other workers.

Mr Campbell said he expects the death toll to climb above 4000.

“That’s a very conservative estimate because they’re working during summer where temperatures get well over 45 degrees. There’s heat exhaustion, heat stroke, people collapsing from dehydration. Anywhere else in the world you wouldn’t be working in those conditions.”

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