Cempaka Asean: World Cup host Qatar in May Day pledge on workers' rights

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - Text version)

“….. Here is the prediction: China will turn North Korea loose soon. The alliance will dissolve, or become stale. There will be political upheaval in China. Not a coup and not a revolution. Within the inner circles of that which you call Chinese politics, there will be a re-evaluation of goals and monetary policy. Eventually, you will see a break with North Korea, allowing still another dictator to fall and unification to occur with the south. ….”

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Friday, May 2, 2014

World Cup host Qatar in May Day pledge on workers' rights

Yahoo – AFP, May 2, 2014

World Cup host Qatar in May Day
pledge on workers' rights

Doha (AFP) - Qatar Thursday promised pay guarantees and better conditions for migrant workers building infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup as it hosted a Labour Day conference to address growing international concern.

Leading critic Amnesty International, which attended the conference, welcomed Qatar's openness in addressing the issue but called for it go much further and reform the whole system of restrictions it imposes on expatriates who make up 93 percent of the workforce.

The conservative Gulf states have traditionally tolerated no May Day commemorations, but the Qatari Football Association said that Thursday's conference had been timed to coincide with "Labour Day".

Labour and Social Affairs Minister Abdullah al-Khulaifi told the conference that Qatar was taking steps to enforce prompt payment for all workers, as well as building better accommodation and boosting the number of safety inspectors at construction sites.

"Our (Islamic) religion has ordered us to treat workers in a humane way, and not to task them with unbearable jobs... most importantly, to pay them," Khulaifi said.

The government approved a recommendation Wednesday to make the electronic transfer of wages mandatory.

"We hope that the wage protection system will achieve its aims," Khulaifi said.

He said the government planned to build two new "labour cities" in Doha's industrial zone with a capacity to house 100,000 workers.

Five other compounds were being built elsewhere in the emirate to accommodate 120,000 workers, he said.

Additional safety inspectors had also been recruited, as well as interpreters with a command of the Asian languages that are the mother tongues of most of the migrant workforce.

Amnesty's head of global issues, Audrey Gaughran, urged Qatar to go further and reform the sponsorship system, under which a foreign worker cannot return home without an exit permit from his Qatari sponsor, among other restrictions.

'Appalling conditions'

"Exit permit is a flagrant breach of human rights," she told the forum, insisting that it should not be left in the hands of a private employer.

Gaughran said she met on Wednesday with 10 Nepalese migrant workers who were living in "appalling conditions" after their Qatari sponsor disappeared along with their passports.

"They live on handouts," unable to return home even though they bought their travel tickets, she said.

Amnesty had said previously that the tens of thousands of migrant workers building the multi-billion-dollar World Cup infrastructure were being treated like "animals", with hundreds dying on the construction sites.

The International Trade Union Confederation has warned that at current rates, as many as 4,000 people might die by the time the tournament kicks off in eight years' time.

The International Labour Organisation called on Qatar earlier this month to remove a host of restrictions on migrant workers forming trade unions or striking.

Qatar said Thursday it has received a report it had commissioned international law firm DLA Piper to prepare on workers' conditions.

It said authorities will "thoroughly" review the findings and study the feasibility and sustainability of the recommendations.

"The welfare of workers in the State of Qatar is a matter of utmost importance," it said, promising to respond to the recommendations and release the report to the public after reviewing it.

The 2022 World Cup has been plagued by controversy ever since it was awarded to the tiny Gulf state.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has called for the tournament to be played during the northern hemisphere's winter rather than in the searing heat of a Gulf summer.

But he has met fierce resistance from the big European leagues.

A decision will not be taken until 2015.

Foreign construction workers in Doha, Qatar: Officials said they would abolish

the country’s 'kafala' sponsorship system – which ties workers to a single employer.

Photograph: EPA

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