Qatar introduces new labor reforms - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Foreign laborers working on the construction site of Al-Wakrah football stadium, one of Qatar's 2022 World Cup stadiums, walk back to their accommodations at the Ezdan 40 compound after finishing work on May 4, 2015, in Doha's Al-Wakrah southern suburbs. — MARWAN NAAMANI/AFP via Getty Images

Workers clean up at the Villaggio shopping mall in Doha, May 29, 2012. Thirteen expatriate children were among those killed in Monday's fire at the Villaggio Mall in Doha's west end, including two-year-old triplets from New Zealand. Authorities have ordered an investigation into the blaze near a childcare area at the mall amid reports that security staff at the complex reacted slowly to the blaze and in chaotic fashion. Several at the complex told Reuters fire alarms did not go off or rang only dimly. REUT

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Construction workers stand on scaffolding in Al-Balad, a historical area in the Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah, on January 11, 2020. (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)

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Migrant workers, who work for Saudi Binladin Group, gather as they ask for a final settlement over salary issue, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser/File Photo - S1BETCGXSMAA

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