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Qatar is awarded the 2022 World Cup, locking in a kafala construction boom

On 2 December 2010 FIFA awarded Qatar the 2022 World Cup. Tamim was deputy emir; as emir from 2013 he owned delivery. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Income Inequality.

Qatar is awarded the 2022 World Cup, locking in a kafala construction boom

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On 2 December 2010 FIFA awarded Qatar the 2022 World Cup. Tamim was deputy emir; as emir from 2013 he owned delivery.

Context

FIFA voted. Hamad was still emir. Tamim delivered as emir. He did not write FIFA’s later reforms. Stadium deaths sit on a neighbouring 2022 oversight row.

World Cup opening 2022 is the tournament. Labour-law 2020 is a later reform.

The emir of Qatar is head of state and, in practice, of government under the 2004 constitution as applied. He does not write FIFA statutes, UN Security Council resolutions, Hamas military orders, or ILO conventions by himself.

Why it matters

The path is labour and political polarisation: a completed award created a construction boom under kafala. It is not a unique death coefficient from 2010.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Tamim bin Hamad Al

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.55 · verified

    He delivered the tournament as emir from 2013. FIFA awarded. Hamad bid. Contractors built.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactQatar is awarded the 2022 World Cup, locking in a kafala construction boom
    2. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

    impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 2 December 2010 · verified

    A decade of kafala construction for a mega-event is a completed inequality path for migrant workers.

    1. FactQatar is awarded the 2022 World Cup, locking in a kafala construction boom
    2. weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 2 December 2010 · verified

    Locking in stadium labour under kafala is a completed migrant-rights exposure.

    • Having a say in government

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Worse

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.23 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Worse

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.23 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — Qatar wins 2022 World Cup bidReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.FIFA — 2022 World Cup awarded to Qatar, 2 December 2010FIFA · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

FIFA carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

Established: a 2 December 2010 FIFA award of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later death coefficient from the vote night, or that Tamim cast FIFA’s ballots.

FIFA awarded. Hamad bid. Contractors built.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Qatar is awarded the 2022 World Cup, locking in a kafala construction boom, not a later speech about Qatar is awarded the 2022 World Cup, locking in a kafala construction boom.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He delivered the tournament as emir from 2013. FIFA awarded. Hamad bid. Contractors built. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorTamim bin Hamad Al
  2. contributed toFactQatar is awarded the 2022 World Cup, locking in a kafala construction boom
  3. strengthensDrivers (2)Income Inequality

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Factrail. (2026). Qatar is awarded the 2022 World Cup, locking in a kafala construction boom. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/qa-kafala-world-cup-labour

https://factrail.ai/facts/qa-kafala-world-cup-labour

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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