Πέμπτη 30 Οκτωβρίου 2008

Το νέο σήμα της Ολυμπιακής...

...είναι μια προσφορά του μπλογκ στους εμίριδες του Κατάρ που θέλουν να αγοράσουν τον Εθνικό αερομεταφορέα. Στόχος της προσφοράς μας είναι να βοηθήσουμε την φιλότιμη προσπάθεια της κυβέρνησης να ξεπουλήσει ότι απέμεινε σε Ελληνικά χέρια. Αν καταφέρναμε να πείσουμε την πολιτική ηγεσία να πουλήσει ολόκληση η χώρα στον εμίρη του Κατάρ, ίσως ελαχιστοποιήσουμε την πιθανότητα να αγοράσει την Ελλάδα ο Βγενόπουλος.

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Qatar,μια σκληρη και απανθρωπη δικτατορια,που εκμεταλλευεται μεχρι θανατου,χιλιαδες ασιατες δουλους εργαζομενους,που δεν εχουν κανενα δικαιωμα,τους παρακρατανε τα διαβατηρια,τους στελνουν φυλακη αν διαμαρτυρηθουν ή τους ξυλοκοπουνε μεχρι θανατου.
Να τον βρασω τον φιλελληνα ;εμιρη και τις 4 γυναικες του,κρεμασμενος θα μου φαινοταν συμπαθεστερος και πιο ακινδυνος.
http://www.solidaritycenter.org/content.asp?contentid=632

QATAR - DICTATORSHIP, ARAB LEAGUE MEMBER
Autocracy - No Political Parties - Judges at Government's Pleasure
No Freedom of Speech - No Workers’ Rights - Women Discrimination

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Qatar and United Arab Emirates Exploit Migrant Labor for Development Print page E-mail to a friend




In September 2006, Heba El-Shazli, the Solidarity Center’s Director of Middle East and North Africa Programs, traveled to the Gulf region with Regional Country Program Director Laurie Clements and Regional Program Officer Dan Cork, to investigate migrant worker rights conditions in Qatar and Dubai. They found desperation—and hope.

Qatar’s Sponsor Law Enslaves Migrant Workers

An Indonesian housemaid is lying in a coma at the local hospital because her Qatari sponsor (employer) severely beat her. She will never regain consciousness.

A sick Indian worker from Kerala is lucky to have the air conditioning left on in this desert environment as he recuperates in the 15 x 30 foot cinderblock room that he shares with 12 other men. His sponsor provided the housing, commonly called a “labor camp.”

In 2006, indentured slavery is still alive and well in Qatar, a small nation in the Gulf region of the Arabian Peninsula. Two-thirds of Qatar’s 800,000 inhabitants are migrant workers, mostly from Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines. A 1963 “sponsor law” controls the “importation of labor—white and blue collar.” A Ministry of Interior official says the law “gives workers an opportunity to come to Doha and work safely.” But the law provides neither an opportunity nor safety for workers. Instead, it places them in virtual servitude. Here is how it works.

A Qatari citizen—the sponsor—procures a visa for a worker and thereby controls that worker’s movements for the duration of his or her contract while in Qatar. The worker cannot change jobs, leave the country, buy a car, or rent a home without the sponsor’s permission. Unskilled and domestic workers’ passports are confiscated. If they complain about the sponsor or try to run away, they are sent to a “deportation center”—a jail—pending an investigation. Although sponsors are required to give workers an end-of-year bonus, a return airline ticket, and medical insurance, failure to do so is often not enforced. For a 12- to 14-hour shift, a worker earns about $120 per month. Unskilled migrant workers frequently complain that employers pay them late or not at all, deny them overtime wages, house them in substandard living quarters with no running water, lure them with false contracts, and refuse to give back their passports at the end of their contract. An Egyptian worker said: “I want to raise my children and educate them so they do not have to suffer like me.”

Employment and recruitment agencies are unregulated. Many force workers to pay up to $2,000 in advance, plunging them into debt even before leaving their own country. Once arrived, they may find that there is no job after all. As “illegals,” such workers are vulnerable to trafficking, or they may disappear into the informal economy.

Earlier this year, in preparation for the 2006 Asian Games, the capital city of Doha was a huge construction site. To meet the opening deadline, workers put in long shifts in the blazing sun. Temperatures regularly topped 100 degrees. More than 60 young Nepali workers, unused to the hot climate, died of heart attacks. Unsafe equipment resulted in more deaths and injuries. The situation is no better for domestic workers, mostly young women, who face physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of their sponsors.

In 2004, with Qatar increasingly under the glare of human rights abuse, the country established a National Human Rights Committee and a special Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Office. The TIP coordinator manages a shelter that can house up to 14 abused men, women, and children, but the shelter is severely underused. Many embassies in sending countries are unaware of its existence. The committee issues yearly reports and regular press releases. Its greatest success has been uncovering the horror of child camel jockeys, some as young as three years old. This abusive practice is now banned nationwide. The committee is pushing for labor law reform and worker rights, although even such reform would exclude domestic workers.

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Aπο τους 800000 κατοικους του Καταρ,τα 2/3 ειναι ασιατες δουλοι-εργατες,που τους παρακρατανε τα διαβατηρια,τους ξυλοκοπουνε μεχρι να τους καταντησουνε φυτα,τους πεθαινουν βαζοντας τας τους να δουλευουν σε απανθρωπες συνθηκες,για 14 ωρες,χωρις δικαιωμα διαμαρτυριας.
Τα λεει ολα,το παραπανω αρθρο στα αγγλικα,που ανεβασα απο το λινκ που παρεθεσα στο πρωτο σχολιο.