Activists and Gulf crisis turn Qatar into potential model of social change
By James M. Dorsey
Potential Qatari moves to become the first Gulf state to effectively abolish the region’s onerous kafala or labour sponsorship system, denounced as a form of modern slavery, could produce a rare World Cup that leaves a true legacy of social and economic change.
In a rare kudo, Qatar’s fiercest labour critic, the International Trade Unio…