Until recently nobody who hadn't studied or worked in the Middle East understood just what the Kafala was, and how the Qatari and Qatari based employers used it. That is now changing. The word Kafal is now appearing in newsprint in the western world, prompted by WC 2022, and the implications that aren't written down of how it is used to intimidate and exploit migrant workers are starting to be understood to the extent that the Qatari are now beginning to be defined by it - and the reaction is not good. So words like "reviews" and "investigations" into human rights are now being seen for the cynical deception that they are. Only when the Qatari abolish the Kafala will anyone believe a word that they say.
Until recently nobody who hadn't studied or worked in the Middle East understood just what the Kafala was, and how the Qatari and Qatari based employers used it. That is now changing. The word Kafal is now appearing in newsprint in the western world, prompted by WC 2022, and the implications that aren't written down of how it is used to intimidate and exploit migrant workers are starting to be understood to the extent that the Qatari are now beginning to be defined by it - and the reaction is not good. So words like "reviews" and "investigations" into human rights are now being seen for the cynical deception that they are. Only when the Qatari abolish the Kafala will anyone believe a word that they say.