Over 1,000 people may have lost their lives working in the Gulf state as it prepares to host the 2022 World Cup.
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FIFA's decision to award Qatar the 2022 World Cup was hugely controversial from the moment it was announced.
There were fears about human rights abuses and the treatment of migrant workers. A Guardian investigation suggested they were well-founded.
The paper found that 964 workers from Nepal, India and Bangladesh had died in 2012 and 2013, though it could not say how many of those were specifically due to the World Cup.
In 2013 the International Trade Union Confederation claimed that 4,000 lives could be lost in the process of getting Qatar ready for the World Cup.
It said that Qatar's migrant workforce had increased by more than 50% to over half a million, and that without reform, the number of fatalities would only continue to rise.
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