Qatar has trapped people in its country, and now they’re hiding them from view.
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It started with me looking at a map. But soon I got sucked into a deep dark secret, one Qatar doesn’t want the world to see.
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Mustafa Qadri from Equidem Research – https://www.equidemresearch.org/projects/
Isobel Archer from the Business & Human Rights Resource Center – https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/
Thank you again to Goma Magar, Bikram Tajpuriya, and Sushil in Nepal for sharing your stories.
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