At least 50 of the workers in the Qatar World Cup sites died in 2020 and the International Labor Organization (ILO) assured that there are gaps in the collection of data by the country's institutions, so that the ILO will present a categorical figure on the number of fatal occupational injuries.
The report said that Qatar improperly investigates and reports worker deaths and called for "better quality and more accurate data collection, with more efforts to investigate injuries and deaths that may be work-related, but currently do not. they are classified as such ".
The small Gulf country has been the subject of NGO reports alleging mistreatment and abuse towards migrant workers involved in infrastructure projects in the run-up to the soccer World Cup, which begins in November 2022.