Qatar and a World Cup controversy
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Qatar and the World Cup
Qatar has introduced some labor reforms and response to all the criticism around foreign workers. But groups like Amnesty International are saying there's a lack of enforcement of these measures. Qatar lent into the sports washing and the geopolitical soft power, might have hosting a World Cup and didn't realize that in doing so, we would now think about its human rights record. And what I think Qatar did not think through is the phenomenon of the stress and the fact that in trying not to make people think of you in a certain way, you draw more attention than you ever wanted.
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